Neurovasculature
Plate463
MedianNerve
Anterior view
Note: Only muscles innervated by median nerve shown.
Musculocutaneous nerve
Median nerve (
C5
, 6, 7,
8, T1)
Inconstant contribution
Pronator teres muscle (humeral head)
Articular branch
Flexor carpi radialis muscle
Palmaris longus muscle
Pronator teres muscle (ulnar head)
Flexor digitorum superficialis muscle
(
turned up
)
Anterior interosseous nerve
Flexor pollicis longus muscle
Pronator quadratus muscle
Palmar branch of median nerve
Abductor pollicis brevis
Opponens pollicis
Superficial head of
flexor pollicis brevis
(deep head
supplied by
ulnar nerve)
Thenar
muscles
1st and 2nd
lumbrical muscles
Dorsal branches to
dorsum of middle and
distal phalanges
Medial
Posterior
Lateral
Cords of
brachial
plexus
Medial brachial
cutaneous nerve
Medial antebrachial
cutaneous nerve
Axillary nerve
Radial nerve
Ulnar nerve
Cutaneous
innervation
Palmar view
Posterior (dorsal) view
Proper palmar
digital nerves
Common palmar
digital nerves
Communicating branch
of median nerve with
ulnar nerve
Flexor digitorum profundus muscle
(lateral part supplied by median
[anterior interosseous] nerve; medial
part supplied by ulnar nerve)
See±also±
Plates 400, 432, 433
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