Nerve: Lumbrosacral plexus | ||
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Plan of lumbar plexus. | ||
Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses. | ||
Latin | plexus lumbosacralis | |
Gray's | subject #212 948 | |
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MeSH | A08.800.800.720.450 |
- Main article: Spinal nerves
The anterior divisions of the lumbar nerve, sacral nerve, and coccygeal nerves form the Lumbrosacral plexus or lumbosacral plexus, the first lumbar nerve being frequently joined by a branch from the twelfth thoracic. For descriptive purposes this plexus is usually divided into three parts:
External links[]
- Atlas of anatomy at UMich abdo_wall72 - "Lumbosacral Plexus"
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lumbar plexus: iliohypogastric - ilioinguinal - genitofemoral (femoral branch/lumboinguinal, genital branch) - lateral cutaneous of thigh (patellar) - obturator (anterior, cutaneous, posterior, accessory) - femoral (anterior cutaneous branches, saphenous)
sacral/coccygeal plexus: to quadratus femoris - to obturator internus - to the piriformis - superior gluteal - inferior gluteal - posterior cutaneous of thigh (inferior cluneal, perineal branches)
sciatic: tibial (medial sural cutaneous, sural, medial calcaneal, medial plantar, lateral plantar) - common fibular (lateral sural cutaneous, deep fibular, superficial fibular, medial dorsal cutaneous, intermediate dorsal cutaneous)
pudendal plexus: perforating cutaneous - pudendal (dorsal of the penis/clitoris, inferior anal, perineal and posterior scrotal/labial) - anococcygeal
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