Preferred Label : recurrent laryngeal nerve;
MeSH definition : Branches of the vagus (tenth cranial) nerve. The recurrent laryngeal nerves originate
more caudally than the superior laryngeal nerves and follow different paths on the
right and left sides. They carry efferents to all muscles of the larynx except the
cricothyroid and carry sensory and autonomic fibers to the laryngeal, pharyngeal,
tracheal, and cardiac regions.;
MeSH synonym : nerves, recurrent laryngeal; laryngeal nerves, recurrent; laryngeal nerve, recurrent; nerve, recurrent laryngeal; recurrent laryngeal nerves;
MeSH hyponym : laryngeal nerve, inferior; Inferior Laryngeal Nerve; Inferior Laryngeal Nerves; Laryngeal Nerves, Inferior; Nerve, Inferior Laryngeal; Nerves, Inferior Laryngeal;
MeSH annotation : disease: coordinate IM with CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES (IM); neoplasm: coordinate IM with
CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) histological type of neoplasm (IM); paralysis VOCAL
CORD PARALYSIS;
Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent laryngeal nerve;
Origin ID : D012009;
UMLS CUI : C0034898;
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Branches of the vagus (tenth cranial) nerve. The recurrent laryngeal nerves originate
more caudally than the superior laryngeal nerves and follow different paths on the
right and left sides. They carry efferents to all muscles of the larynx except the
cricothyroid and carry sensory and autonomic fibers to the laryngeal, pharyngeal,
tracheal, and cardiac regions.
