CERVICAL NERVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cervical nerve mean? 

• CERVICAL NERVE (noun)
  The noun CERVICAL NERVE has 1 sense:

1. any of eight pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the cervical section of the spinal cord

  Familiarity information: CERVICAL NERVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERVICAL NERVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of eight pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the cervical section of the spinal cord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cervical nerve" is a kind of...):

nervus spinalis; spinal nerve (any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal))

 Context examples 

The deltoid muscle is innervated by the brachial plexus arising from the fifth and sixth cervical nerves and controls abduction, extension, flexion, and rotation of the arm.

(Deltoid, NCI Thesaurus)