Radiology Lexicon

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Preferred Name

cervical plexus
Synonyms
Definitions

A network of nerve fibers originating in the upper four cervical spinal cord segments. The cervical plexus distributes cutaneous nerves to parts of the neck, shoulders, and back of the head, and motor fibers to muscles of the cervical spinal column, infrahyoid muscles, and the diaphragm. [MeSH]
ID

http://radlex.org/RID/RID7448
Comment

formed from C1-4
Continuous_With

http://radlex.org/RID/RID7435
Definition

A network of nerve fibers originating in the upper four cervical spinal cord segments. The cervical plexus distributes cutaneous nerves to parts of the neck, shoulders, and back of the head, and motor fibers to muscles of the cervical spinal column, infrahyoid muscles, and the diaphragm. [MeSH]
Has_Branch

http://radlex.org/RID/RID7454

http://radlex.org/RID/RID7451

http://radlex.org/RID/RID7452

http://radlex.org/RID/RID7449
label

RID7448
Member_Of

http://radlex.org/RID/RID13186
Part_Of

http://radlex.org/RID/RID13186
Preferred_name

cervical plexus
Preferred_name_German

Plexus cervicalis
prefixIRI

RID7448
UMLS_ID

C0007854
subClassOf

http://radlex.org/RID/RID13187
Has_Part

http://radlex.org/RID/RID14925
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