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  2. Ventral ramus of spinal nerve - Wikipedia

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    There are four main plexuses formed by the ventral rami: the cervical plexus contains ventral rami from spinal nerves C1–C4. Branches of the cervical plexus, which include the phrenic nerve, innervate muscles of the neck, the diaphragm, and the skin of the neck and upper chest. The brachial plexus contains ventral rami from spinal nerves C5 ...

  3. Spinal nerve - Wikipedia

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    Spinal nerve Typical spinal nerve location. Each spinal nerve is a mixed nerve, formed from the combination of nerve root fibers from its dorsal and ventral roots. The dorsal root is the afferent sensory root and carries sensory information to the brain. The ventral root is the efferent motor root and carries motor information from the brain.

  4. Cervical plexus - Wikipedia

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    Transverse cervical nerve - innervates anterior region of neck (C2 and C3) Supraclavicular nerves - innervate the skin above and below the clavicle (C3-C4) [6] [clarification needed] Muscular Ansa cervicalis - a loop formed by C1-C3 that supplies most infrahyoid (a.k.a. "strap") muscles (sternothyroid, sternohyoid, omohyoid muscles) etc.

  5. Posterior branches of cervical nerves - Wikipedia

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    The medial branch (ramus medialis; internal branch), called from its size and distribution the greater occipital nerve, ascends obliquely between the Obliquus capitis inferior and the Semispinalis capitis, and pierces the latter muscle and the Trapezius near their attachments to the occipital bone. It is then joined by a filament from the ...

  6. Cervical spinal nerve 4 - Wikipedia

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    Cervical spinal nerve 4, also called C4, is a spinal nerve of the cervical segment. It originates from the spinal cord above the 4th cervical vertebra (C4). It contributes nerve fibers to the phrenic nerve , the motor nerve to the thoracoabdominal diaphragm .

  7. Epaxial and hypaxial muscles - Wikipedia

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    The hypaxial muscles are located on the ventral side of the body, often below the horizontal septum in many species (primarily fish and amphibians). In all species, the hypaxial muscles are innervated by the ventral ramus (branch) of the spinal nerves, while the epaxial muscles are innervated by the dorsal ramus.

  8. Lesser occipital nerve - Wikipedia

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    It arises from the (lateral branch of the ventral ramus [3] [4]) of cervical spinal nerve C2; [3] [4] [2] it (sources differ) receives [1] or may also receive fibres from cervical spinal nerve C3. [3] [4] It originates between the atlas, and axis. [4] The lesser occipital nerve is one of the four cutaneous branches of the cervical plexus. [5]

  9. General visceral afferent fiber - Wikipedia

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    In the abdomen, general visceral afferent fibers usually accompany sympathetic efferent fibers. This means that a signal traveling in an afferent fiber will begin at sensory receptors in the afferent fiber's target organ, travel up to the ganglion where the sympathetic efferent fiber synapses, continue back along a splanchnic nerve from the ganglion into the sympathetic trunk, move into a ...