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Definition of Femoral nerve

1. Noun. One of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh.

Medical Definition of Femoral nerve

1. A nerve originating in the lumbar spinal cord (usually l2 to l4) and traveling through the lumbar plexus to provide motor innervation to extensors of the thigh and sensory innervation to parts of the thigh, lower leg, and foot, and to the hip and knee joints. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Femoral nerve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"more distally it is crossed by the medial cutaneous branch (OT internal cutaneous) of the femoral nerve, which runs along the medial border of the sartorius ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"and saphenous branches of the femoral nerve, forming a kind of plexus. ... Within the abdomen the femoral nerve gives off small branches to the Iliacus, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"The most pronounced symptoms, however, were in the course of the femoral nerve, and there was slight involvement of the same nerve upon the opposite side. ..."

4. Manual of practical anatomy, v.2 by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"more distally it is crossed by the medial cutaneous branch (OT internal cutaneous) of the femoral nerve, which runs along the medial border of the sartorius ..."

5. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"Crural or Anterior femoral nerve. (Fig. 355, 2.) This is the largest of the branches arising from the anterior portion of the plexus. ..."

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