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The radial nerve runs along the thumb-side edge of the forearm.
It gives sensation to the back of the hand from the thumb to main knuckle of the back surface of the ring and middle fingers.
The median nerve travels through carpal tunnel.
Sensory branch to the thumb, index finger, long finger, and half of the ring finger.
Motor branch to the thenar muscles(abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis) of the thumb.
The ulnar nerve travels Guyon's canal.
Sensory branch to the little finger and half the ring finger.
Motor branch to adductor pollicis and hypothenar muscle(abductor digiti minimi, flexor digiti minimi brevis, opponens digiti minimi).
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What major nerves serve the medial side of the hand?
You have three nerves, which supply your forearm. Radial, ulnar and median nerve. Out of these three nerves, median nerve is the main nerve to supply forearm muscles and some of the hand muscles.
The extensor muscle of the hand are controlled by what nerve?
Posterior interosseus nerve, one of the two terminal branches of Radial and the Radial itself (it supply only one muscle)
What muscles does sural nerve supply?
The sural nerve is cutaneous and therefore does not supply any muscles.
What is the nerve supply for taste bud of circumvallate papilla?
It should supply with glossopharyngeal & facial nerve.
How is the nerve supply to platysma muscle?
Facial nerve
What is the nerve supply to the levator scapula?
Dorsal scapular nerve
What structures does the glossopharyngeal nerve supply?
what structures does the vagus nerve su
Which nerve is known as eye of hand?
optic nerve
How many nerve endings are in your hand?
There are 2500 nerve receptors per square centimeter in the human hand.
Which Nerve is responsible for fine movement of the hand?
median nerve
Does each muscle in a limb receives its nerve supply from one spinal nerve?
False
What does the Nerve Supply to a Skeletal Muscle do?
nothin
