Phys. Assumed combining form of L. cervix, -īcis neck, as in cervico-brachial a., belonging to the neck and arm; cervico-branchial a., belonging to the branchiæ and the neck; cervico-facial a., belonging to the neck and face; cervico-scapular a., belonging to the neck and the shoulder-bone, etc.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 292/1. A branch of the inferior or cervico-facial division.
1842. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M., 401. The Cervico-facial divides into a number of branches.
1872. W. Aitken, Sci. & Pr. Med. (ed. 6), II. 354. Cervico-brachial Neuralgia is located among the sensory twigs of the brachial plexus.
