what nerves innervate the lungs
Nerve supply to the lungs. Pulmonary Plexus. 1  Receives afferent and efferent (parasympathetic preganglionic) fibers from the vagus nerve, joined by branches (sympathetic postganglionic fibers) from the sympathetic trunk and cardiac plexus.hrenic Nerve. 1  Arises from the third through fifth cervical nerves (C3âC5) and lies in front of the anterior scalene muscle. 2  Enters the thorax by passing deep to the subclavian vein and superficial to the subclavian arteries.