C1 nerve

Cervical spinal nerve
The plan of the cervical and brachial plexuses
The spinal cord with spinal nerves
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Identifiers
Latin	Nervi spinalis
FMA	6440
Anatomical terminology []

The cervical spinal nerve 1 (C1) is a spinal nerve of the cervical segment. C1 is unique in that all other spinal nerves have both sensory and motor fibres, whereas C1 carries motor fibres and also a small meningeal branch that supplies some parts of the floor of foramen magnum (via hypoglossal nerve)

It originates from the spinal column from above the cervical vertebra 1 (C1).

Muscles innervated by this nerve are: