“nerve of”

The following 3 entries include the term nerve of.

nerve of Hering

noun

: a nerve that arises from the main trunk of the glossopharyngeal nerve and runs along the internal carotid artery to supply afferent fibers especially to the baroreceptors of the carotid sinus

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nerve of Lancisi

noun

: either of a pair of longitudinal elevations near the middle line of the upper surface of the corpus callosum

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nerve of Wrisberg

noun

: nervus intermedius

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