Usually means: Cranial nerve, controls neck muscles.
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  1. accessory nerve: Merriam-Webster
  2. accessory nerve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accessory nerve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accessory nerve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accessory nerve: Vocabulary.com
  6. accessory nerve: Wiktionary
  7. accessory nerve: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. accessory nerve: Dictionary.com
  9. Accessory nerve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. accessory nerve: Rhymezone
  11. accessory nerve: FreeDictionary.org
  12. accessory nerve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. accessory nerve: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. accessory nerve: Merriam-Webster

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  1. accessory nerve: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. accessory nerve: Legal dictionary

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  1. accessory nerve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. accessory nerve: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Accessory nerve, Nerve, accessory: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Accessory nerve: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Accessory Nerve: Anatomy of the Human Body
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. accessory nerve: Medical dictionary
  10. Accessory nerve, Nerve, accessory: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See accessory_nerves as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (accessory nerve)

noun:  (neuroanatomy) Either of a pair of motor nerves that are the 11th cranial nerve of higher vertebrates, arise from the medulla oblongata and the upper part of the spinal cord, controlling the pharynx and the muscles of the upper chest, back and shoulders.

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