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Trauma that severs the spinal cord between C6 and C7 will

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Trauma that severs the spinal cord between C6 and C7 will

  1. mean that the phrenic nerve has been severed
  2. mean that artifi cial ventilation will be required to sustain life
  3. cause the diaphragm to lose innervation but allow the intercostal muscles to operate
  4. cause the intercostal muscles to lose innervation but allow the diaphragm to operate
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waelhammad
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D: The phrenic nerve that stimulates the diaphragm will not be severed as the spinal nerves that form it leave the spinal cord above C6. The intercostal muscles will be paralysed. 

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