| Phenotype: | cranial nerve X position, abnormal |
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| Note: | This statement combines anatomy and/or ontology terms with phenotype quality terms to create a complete phenotype (EQ) statement. For detailed information on individual terms, click the hyperlinked term name. |
| Name: | cranial nerve X |
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| Synonyms: | CN-X, vagal nerve, vagus nerve |
| Definition: | Cranial nerve that innervates gill muscles. Sometimes called a branchiomeric nerve because it innervates derivatives of the branchial arches. This nerve contains sensory axons that carry both somatic and visceral sensory information as well as motor axons from branchiomotor neurons. The root is typically found at either rhombomere 7 or rhombomere 8. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000453] |
| Name: | position |
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| Synonyms: | location, placement, relational spatial quality |
| Definition: | A spatial quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's spatial location relative to other objects in the vicinity. |
| Ontology: | Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0000140] |