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  2. Cough reflex - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Bed rest interferes with the expansion of the chest and limits the amount of air that can be taken into the lungs in preparation for coughing, making the cough weak and ineffective. [ citation needed ] This reflex may also be impaired by damage to the internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve which relays the afferent ...

  3. Phrenic nerve - Wikipedia

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    The nerve is important for breathing because it provides exclusive motor control of the diaphragm, the primary muscle of respiration. In humans, the right and left phrenic nerves are primarily supplied by the C4 spinal nerve, but there is also a contribution from the C3 and C5 spinal nerves. From its origin in the neck, the nerve travels ...

  4. Vagus nerve - Wikipedia

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    The hypersensitivity of vagal afferent nerves causes refractory or idiopathic cough. Arnold's nerve ear-cough reflex, though uncommon, is a manifestation of a vagal sensory neuropathy and this is the cause of a refractory chronic cough that can be treated with gabapentin. The cough is triggered by mechanical stimulation of the external auditory ...

  5. Cough center - Wikipedia

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    Successful joint models of medullary systems coordinating breathing, coughing and swallowing has been constructed based on this model. [4] [5] Coughing can occur or be inhibited as a voluntary action, suggesting control from higher systems in the brain. Functional brain imaging of voluntary, suppressed, and induced coughing show that a number ...

  6. Auricular branch of vagus nerve - Wikipedia

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    This nerve may be involved by the glomus jugulare tumour. Laryngeal cancer can present with pain behind the ear and in the ear - this is a referred pain through the vagus nerve to the nerve of Arnold. In a small portion of individuals, the auricular nerve is the afferent limb of the Ear-Cough or Arnold Reflex. [3]

  7. Respiratory center - Wikipedia

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    The solitary nucleus is the end-point for sensory information arriving from the pontine respiratory group, and from two cranial nerves – the vagus nerve, and the glossopharyngeal nerve. The solitary nucleus sends signals to the respiratory center from peripheral chemoreceptors , baroreceptors , and other types of receptors in the lungs in ...

  8. Telltale Signs You Need to See a Doctor for Your Cough - AOL

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    If you have a fever with your cough that doesn’t get better with medication or comes back within a few hours of taking fever-reducing medication, you have shortness of breath, chest pain, body ...

  9. Pharyngeal reflex - Wikipedia

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    The CNS receives this message and sends an appropriate response via an efferent nerve (also known as a motor neuron) to effector cells located in the same initial area that can then carry out the appropriate response. [1] In the case of the pharyngeal reflex: the sensory limb is mediated predominantly by CN IX (glossopharyngeal nerve)