Effingham County is one of Illinois's most Republican counties, if not the most. In the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, John McCain carried the county by a 36% margin over Barack Obama, making it McCain's strongest county in the state, with Obama carrying his home state by a 25.1% margin over McCain.
Quick Answer. Each spinal nerve exits the vertebral column through a small hole, or foramen, on the side of the corresponding vertebrae, CNS-Visual Perspectives explains. The cervical nerves in the upper part of the spine exit above the vertebrae, while the nerves below the seventh cervical vertebrae exit below. Continue Reading.
Fibers leaving the nucleus ambiguus travel anteriorly and laterally to exit the medulla posterior to the olive as a series of 8 - 10 rootlets. Upon emerging from the lateral aspect of the medulla the branchial motor component travels with the fibers of the accessory nerve (CN XI) into the jugular foramen of the skull. The remaining components of the vagus nerve also enter the jugular foramen and give rise to two ganglia (the superior and inferior vagal ganglia) within the jugular foramen.