Phrenic/vagus/cervical sympathetic chain

Question 1

Where does the phrenic nerve travel?

Answer 1

anterior scalene M

Question 2

Where does the vagus nerve travel?

Answer 2

from medulla oblongata out of skull in carotid sheath

carries visceral sensory for nerve axons from heart, lungs and guts

Question 3

Where is the cervical sympathetic chain?

Answer 3

posterior in the neck anterior to the lomgus collie M.

Question 4

What are the ganglia of the sympathetic chain?

Answer 4

inferior
middle
superior

Question 5

What is the inferior ganglia associated with?

Answer 5

first rib

C7-8 spinal nerves

Question 6

What is the middle ganglia associated with?

Answer 6

C5-6 spinal nerves

Question 7

How are the middle and inferior ganglia connected?

Answer 7

main root traveling around the subclavian called the ansa subclavia

Question 8

Where does the superior ganglia send fibers?

Answer 8

face

skull

Question 9

What is Horners syndrome?

Answer 9

damage to any part of the sympathetic trunk

pupils will not be able to dilate

Question 10

Where is the Recurrent larygeaneal nerves on the right side?

Answer 10

curves around the subclavian artery and passes up on side of the trachea between the esophagus and trachea

Question 11

Where is the Recurrent larygeaneal nerves on the left side?

Answer 11

it curves around the aorta passes upward between the trachea and esophagus