Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phrenic_nerve

1 sense of phrenic nerve

Sense 1
phrenic nerve, 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)
       => spinal nerve, nervus spinalis -- (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))