accessory nerve

11th cranial nerve

Class type of: neural tree organ, cranial nervi, particular anatomical entity Q271987

accessory nerve — Henry Vandyke Carter · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

7 properties

Instance of: cranial nervi, class of anatomical entity^[5]
Follows: vagus nerve^[6]
Followed by: hypoglossal nerve^[7]
Subclass of: neural tree organ, cranial nervi, particular anatomical entity
Described by source: Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)^[8]
Innervates: trapezius muscle^[10]
NCI Thesaurus ID: C32041^[9]

🏷️ Also known as

en cranial nerve XI en accessory nerve en eleventh cranial nerve en accessory nerve (XI) ar العصب XI ar عصب لاحق ar العصب القحفي الحادي عشر ar العصب الجمجمي الحادي عشر ar عصب إضافي cs Přídatný nerv cs Nervus accesorius cs Nerv přídatný cs XI. hlavový nerv de Nucleus nervi accessorii de N. accessorius de Nucleus motorius nervi accessorii de Nucleus accessorius de Nervus accessorius el Παραπληρωματικό νεύρο es Par craneal XI

🔖 Identifiers · 22

OpenAlex ID: C2779309180
Foundational Model of Anatomy ID: 6720
Freebase ID: /m/01k8lk
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 2629429
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID: dobavochnyi-nerv-772d07
ICD-11 ID (Foundation): 1589877105
ICD-11 ID (MMS): XA2M45
JSTOR topic ID (archived): accessory-nerve
KBpedia ID: AccessoryNerve
MeSH descriptor ID: D000055
MeSH tree code: A08.800.800.120.060
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2779309180

Show all 22 identifiers +10

TA2 ID: 6352
TA98 Latin term: nervus accessorius
Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID: A14.2.01.184, A14.1.02.112
Topic's main category: Category:Accessory nerve
UBERON ID: 0002019
UMLS CUI: C0000905
Wellcome Collection concept ID: vdnwg8dt
WikiSkripta article ID: 16231
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 05488053-n
Xenopus Anatomical Ontology ID: XAO_0004214

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🔗 Connections

Followed by 1

hypoglossal nerve

Followed by (predecessor) 1

hypoglossal nerve

Follows 1

vagus nerve

Innervates 1

trapezius muscle

Instance of 1

cranial nervi

Subclass of 1

cranial nervi

Topic's main category 1

Category:Accessory nerve

← Anatomical location 1

accessory nerve disease

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Accessory nerve

← Innervated by 1

trapezius muscle

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Summary

accessory nerve is a cranial nervi^[1]. It is a type of neural tree organ^[2], cranial nervi^[3], and particular anatomical entity^[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[5] ↑ accessory nerve — instance of (P31): class of anatomical entity. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ accessory nerve — follows (P155): vagus nerve. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ accessory nerve — followed by (P156): hypoglossal nerve. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ accessory nerve — subclass of (P279): neural tree organ. Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved 2019-08-01. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ accessory nerve — subclass of (P279): cranial nervi. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ accessory nerve — subclass of (P279): particular anatomical entity. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ accessory nerve — described by source (P1343): Gray's Anatomy (20th edition). bartleby.com. Retrieved 2015-05-05. bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ accessory nerve — NCI Thesaurus ID (P1748): C32041. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ accessory nerve — innervates (P3190): trapezius muscle. Anatomy and Human Movement Structure and Function 6th edition. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ accessory nerve is an instance of cranial nervi (Q180454) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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24w ago · Comfyquiettree · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Followed by → hypoglossal nerve

Follows → vagus nerve

Instance of → cranial nervi, class of anatomical entity

Innervates → trapezius muscle

+ 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"Created claim: WikiSkripta article ID: 16231, Matched to Nervus accessorius (#78314970) in WikiSkripta #mi"

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