accessory phrenic nerve

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Any of the accessory nerve strands that arise from the fifth cervical nerve, often as branches of the nerve to the subclavius, and pass downward to join the phrenic nerve.

accessory phrenic nerve,

the nerve that joins the phrenic nerve at the root of the neck or in the thorax, forming a loop around the subclavian vein. It may arise from the nerve to the subclavius muscle or from the trigeminal nerve. Compare phrenic nerve.

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