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Recurrent laryngeal nerve
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recurrent laryngeal nerve
n.
A branch of the vagus nerve that supplies the cardiac, tracheal and esophageal branches and terminates as the inferior laryngeal nerve.

Recurrent laryngeal nerve
One of two offshoots of the vagus nerve that connect to the larynx. It is located below the larynx.


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It is possible that stretching of the vagus nerve by the aneurysm might have affected the cranial accessory branches that form the recurrent nerve.
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Neck CT and thorax region MRT were performed, showing no pathology in the area of the recurrent nerve or the vagus.
36) The recurrent nerve does not innervate the larynx in birds but instead innervates the esophagus, crop, tracheal, and syringeal muscles; thus, damage to the recurrent nerves will not cause laryngeal paralysis.
 
 
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