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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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