Foundational Model of Anatomy

Last uploaded: May 13, 2019
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Preferred Name

Nerve

Definitions
Segment of neural tree organ which has as its parts a nerve trunk and its branches; together with other nerves of the same tree it constitutes a neural tree. Examples: chorda tympani, digastric branch of facial nerve, greater petrosal nerve, posterior cutaneous branch of posterior ramus of cervical nerve, superior lateral cutaneous nerve of arm.
Synonyms
Neural subtree
Nerve trunk, each instance of which is the tract arising from some optic chiasma, consisting of fiber segments frm some ipsilateral temporal and contralateral nasal retinas, proceeding backward, around some cerebral peduncle, and dividing into a lateral and a medial root; the roots end in some superior colliculus and lateral geniculate body, respectively.
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