Thoracic nerve

System Nervous
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Thoracic nerve

Definition

The twelve spinal nerves on each side of the thorax. They include eleven INTERCOSTAL NERVES and one subcostal nerve. Both sensory and motor, they supply the muscles and skin of the thoracic and abdominal walls.

Also known as nervus thoracis, thoracic spinal nerve — per UBERON

The Thoracic nerve is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as