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===== [[Summary Article|'''SUMMARY''']] ===== | ===== [[Summary Article|'''SUMMARY''']] ===== | ||
1. Median n. enters the hand through the carpal tunnel, deep to flexor retinaculum, | 1. Median n. enters the hand through the carpal tunnel, deep to flexor retinaculum, between tendons of FCR & FDS. 2. Divides into terminal branches in hand: palmar cutaneous branches & recurrent motor branch. | ||
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<br/>PALMAR CUTANEOUS BRANCH | <br/>PALMAR CUTANEOUS BRANCH | ||
<br/><i>3. Supplies | <br/><i>3. Supplies: palmar skin & dorsal nail beds of lateral 3.5 digits. </i> | ||
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<br/>RECURRENT MOTOR BRANCH | <br/>RECURRENT MOTOR BRANCH | ||
<br/><i>4. Curves back to supply | <br/><i>4. Curves back to supply: lateral 2 lumbricals, opponens pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis. </i> | ||
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<br/><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Image: </b>Gray, Henry. <i>Anatomy of the Human Body.</i> Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. [https://www.bartleby.com/107/ www.bartleby.com/107/] [Accessed 21 Nov. 2018]. | <br/> | ||
<br/><b style="font-weight: bold; ">Image: </b>Gray, Henry. <i>Anatomy of the Human Body.</i> Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. [https://www.bartleby.com/107/ www.bartleby.com/107/] [Accessed 21 Nov. 2018]. | |||
Latest revision as of 18:52, 8 January 2023
SUMMARY
1. Median n. enters the hand through the carpal tunnel, deep to flexor retinaculum, between tendons of FCR & FDS. 2. Divides into terminal branches in hand: palmar cutaneous branches & recurrent motor branch.
PALMAR CUTANEOUS BRANCH
3. Supplies: palmar skin & dorsal nail beds of lateral 3.5 digits.
RECURRENT MOTOR BRANCH
4. Curves back to supply: lateral 2 lumbricals, opponens pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis.
Image: Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/107/ [Accessed 21 Nov. 2018].
Reference(s)
R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Gray, H., Carter, H.V. and Davidson, G. (2017). Gray’s anatomy. London: Arcturus.
