cervical plexus

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noun

a network of nerves branching from the spinal nerves of the neck region and innervating the neck, chest, diaphragm, and part of the face.

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Words nearby cervical plexus

Cervena, Cervera y Topete, cerveza, cervical, cervical cap, cervical plexus, cervical smear, cervicitis, cervicography, cervicum, cervid

How to use cervical plexus in a sentence

Much of this increase is due to human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that is also strongly linked to cervical cancer.
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While being choked during her attack, Sclove explained, her cervical spine sustained injury, which took several weeks to develop.
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The need for affordable health care “goes right to the solar plexus of the middle class,” he said.
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Fleming himself wrote that “the target of my books [lies] somewhere between the solar plexus and the upper thigh”.
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Thanks to the rise of oral sex, we now know that HPV doesn't just cause cervical cancer; it can also cause throat cancer.
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In the following chapter the swelling of cervical glands is taken up.
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Wayne spun him over and delivered a hard punch to the solar plexus.
The Judas Valley|Gerald Vance
It has its seat in the back parts of the brain, in the spinal cord and the greater nervous ganglia, such as the solar plexus.
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In the afternoon we ran into a plexus of crevasses, and the surface was traversed by high ridges.
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On this side it might perhaps injure the nervous plexus, which is even more essential than the dorsal vessel.
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