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(redirected from Cervical nerves)

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They may also result in injury to cervical nerves caused by stretching or compression.
Perhaps the reason for this can be explained by the greater degree of collateral nerve supply to the angle of the mandible from the lesser occipital nerve posteriorly and from the transverse cutaneous nerve of the neck; both of these nerves derive from the second and third cervical nerves, as does the great auricular nerve.
The gel, which enters the neck muscles and skin where there are receptors for serotonin, probably reduces or shuts off discharges from the trigeminal nerve, which innervates the sinus cavities and blood vessels in the scalp and upper cervical nerves.
 
 
 
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