MEDIAN NERVE-E.WRIST & HAND

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.