The phrase "adjacent nerve" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or anatomical contexts to describe a nerve that is located next to or near another nerve.
Example: "The surgeon carefully avoided damaging the adjacent nerve during the procedure."
Alternatives: "neighboring nerve" or "contiguous nerve".
It most commonly results from the growing tumour pressing on adjacent nerve tracts.
In this instance, the muscle cells have regions specialized to receive chemical signals from an adjacent nerve cell.
A degenerated intervertebral disc without any impingement on adjacent nerve roots was suspected as a source of low-back pain in the 1920s.
I suspect that this "battery" isn't providing an actual current so much as a pool of ions, with auditory events triggering channels to open onto adjacent nerve cells, i.e. directly providing ions to trigger nerve outputs.
Unlike schwannoma, neurofibroma are inseparable from the normal nerve, and surgical excision must include the adjacent nerve [94].
Unlike neuromas, they are well-circumscribed, encapsulated lesions that splay rather than invade adjacent nerve fibers [5].
High vagal nerve injuries often include injury to adjacent nerves at the skull base, including the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves.
However, precise localization of target anatomy and adjacent nerves and vessels relative to planning information (e.g., device trajectories) can be challenged by anatomical deformation.
Sequelae of trauma can lead to chronic compression of adjacent nerves.
Other reported complications include deformity, fracture, bursa formation and compression of adjacent nerves and vessels.
The most common serious adverse events are due to erroneous lead placements and lead migration to adjacent nerves.
