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phrenic nerve
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Noun phrenic nerve has 1 sense
- phrenic nerve(n = noun.body) nervus phrenicus - one of a pair of nerves that arises from cervical spinal roots and passes down the thorax to innervate the diaphragm and control breathing; Array is a kind of nervus spinalis, spinal nerve
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