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recurrent laryngeal nerve

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recurrent laryngeal nerve (plural recurrent laryngeal nerves)

  1. (neuroanatomy) One of two branches of the vagus nerve that arises below the larynx, loops under the subclavian artery on the right side and under the arch of the aorta on the left, and returns upward to the larynx to supply all the muscles of the thyroid except the cricothyroid muscle.
    Synonyms: recurrent nerve, inferior laryngeal nerve
    Coordinate terms: superior laryngeal nerve, inferior laryngeal nerve

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