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phrenic nerve

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001884

A nerve that arises from the caudal cervical nerves and is primarily the motor nerve of the diaphragm but also sends sensory fibers to the pericardium. [ VHOG:0000728 ]

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Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000001

A nerve that arises from the caudal cervical nerves and is primarily the motor nerve of the diaphragm but also sends sensory fibers to the pericardium. [TFD][VHOG]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Gray806.png

has related synonym

nervus phrenicus, phrenic, diaphragmatic nerve

id

UBERON:0001884

prefLabel

Phrenic nerve

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606