Inferior cardiac nerve

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Nerve: Inferior cardiac nerve
Diagram of the cervical sympathetic. (Lower cervical ganglion labeled at bottom right.)
Plan of right sympathetic cord and splanchnic nerves. (Inferior cervical ganglion labeled at upper right.)
Latin	n. cardiacus inferior
Gray's	subject #216 980
Innervates	heart
From
To	cardiac plexus
MeSH	[1]

The inferior cardiac nerve arises from either the inferior cervical or the first thoracic ganglion.

It descends behind the subclavian artery and along the front of the trachea, to join the deep part of the cardiac plexus.

It communicates freely behind the subclavian artery with the recurrent nerve and the middle cardiac nerve.

See also

• inferior cervical ganglion
• vagus nerve

External links

• GPnotebook -1080426438
• Dorlands/Elsevier r_02/12689215 - "inferior cardiac branches of the vagus nerve"
• Dorlands/Elsevier n_05/12565288 - "inferior cervical cardiac nerve"

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