| 1. | In the thorax, each phrenic nerve supplies the mediastinal pleura and pericardium.
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| 2. | The phrenic nerve must be identified during thoracic surgery and preserved.
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| 3. | In canines the phrenic nerve arises from C5-C7 with occasional small contributions from C4.
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| 4. | Severing the phrenic nerve, or a phrenectomy, will paralyse that half of the diaphragm.
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| 5. | Raventoxin-VI blocks neuromuscular transmission in a rat phrenic nerve preparation.
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| 6. | Dozens of things irritate the phrenic nerves and cause hiccups.
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| 7. | Phrenic nerve interruption was introduced to Glen Lake in 1924.
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| 8. | In the cat, horse, ox, and small ruminant the phrenic nerve arises variably from C4-C7.
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| 9. | Hiccups are fast, involuntary spasms of the diaphragm caused by irritation of those phrenic nerves.
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| 10. | The mediastinal and central portions of the diaphragmatic pleurae are innervated by the phrenic nerves.
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