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thoracic nerve

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thoracic nerve
n.
Any of 12 mixed motor and sensory nerves on each side of the spine, supplying muscles and skin of the thoracic and the abdominal walls.
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The thoracodorsal artery and vein are preserved in the vascular pedicle, and the long thoracic nerve is protected for the facial neurorrhaphy.
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Twenty-seven patients (84%) had asymmetric weakness consistent with a poliomyelitislike syndrome, 4 (13%) had symmetric ascending weakness with sensory abnormalities consistent with the acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy form of Guillain-Barre syndrome, and 1 had scapular winging and shoulder abduction weakness consistent with a long thoracic nerve paralysis.
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So herpes zoster often affects a strip of skin which follows the line of the thoracic nerves that run round the body parallel to the ribs.
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