What is "phrenic"

Usage examples of "phrenic".

To keep his lungs pumping, a large ventilator for a year then a phrenic nerve stimulator.

He placed micro nerve stimulators on both phrenic nerves to stimulate the diaphragm for breathing, and carefully sewed them together.

The phrenic nerve stimulators were working, but it was not like breathing naturally.

Followers of obsolete unthinkable trades, doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, black marketeers of World War III, excisors of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, officials of unconstituted police states, brokers of exquisite dreams and nostalgias tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, drinkers of the Heavy Fluid sealed in translucent amber of dreams.

The man was schizo phrenic and harmless and I had seen old women in the neighborhood feeding leftover pasta from the same bowls to both the man and the cats.

Peering into the open wound in the feeble glow of the flashlight, she found the pericardium, and made a longitudinal incision with her scalpel, careful to avoid the phrenic nerve.

Now Harry's comment about the phrenic nerve stimulators made sense.