The cervical descending nerve is a peripheral nerve that runs through the chest and reaches the neck, back, and upper back of a person. It is a branch of the lesser thoracic nerve, which exits the spinal cord in the thoracic spine.
The cervical descending nerve arises in humans as a result of the union of several nerves of the back in the medulla region of the spinal column at the level of the last thoracic vertebra. Having passed through the central part of the chest as described above, the cervical nerves branch from the last cervical vertebra and complete their movement by joining the end of the sternum and