phrenic
- a of or relating to the diaphragm
phrenic nerve
- Next the diagnosticians studied Lucy's phrenic nerves, which control the spasmodic contractions of the diaphragmin effect, the hiccup mechanism.
- He ended the hiccups just as he had beforeby making an incision in Miss Mayer's chest and crushing the phrenic nerve which controls the diaphragm where all hiccups originate.
- The surgeon cut into her neck above the collarbone, snipped off an inch and a half of the right phrenic nerve.