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What is the main function of the muscular branches of femoral nerve?
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The main function of the branches of the femoral nerve is that it aids in the mobility and activity of a person, maintains the body's posture, shock absorption, strength, produces heat and respiration.
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Why femoral nerve lies outside from femoral triangle?
The femoral sheath is a downward prolongation of abdominal fascial lining into the lower limbs. It covers the femoral vessels and lymphatics for about 1.5 inches into the thigh. But the femoral nerve, which is the principal nerve of lower limb, lies outside this sheath. The reason is that the major nerves lie outside the fascial envelope.
What is the 12 pairs of peripheral nerves that branch out from the brain?
You are speaking of the 12 cranial nerves:I. Olfactory nerve which branches out of the telencephalonII. Optic which branches out of the diencephalonIII. Oculomotor nerve which branches out of the mesencephalonIV. Trochlear nerve nerve which branches out of the mesencephalonV. Trigeminal nerve which branches out of the ponsVI. Abducens nerve which branches out of the ponsVII. Facial nerve which branches out of the ponsVIII. Vestibulochochlear nerve which branches out of the ponsIX. Glossopharangeal nerve nerve which branches out of the medullaX. Vagus nerve nerve which branches out of the medullaXI. Accessory nerve nerve which branches out of the medulla & cervical spineXII. Hypoglossal nerve nerve which branches out of the medulla
What happens if you get near a nerve giving an buttocks injection?
The femoral nerve.
What nerve is tested for patellar reflex?
The Femoral nerve. Wikipedia: Striking the patellar tendon with a tendon hammer just below the patella stretches the quadriceps muscles in the thigh. This stimulates stretch sensory receptors (i.e. muscle spindles) to trigger an afferent impulse in a sensory Ia-nerve fiber of the femoral nerve which synapses (without interneurones) at the level of L4 in the spinal cord, completely independent of higher centres.
What is the function of the axillary nerve?
axillary nerve or known as circumflex nerve is a nerve of the human body that comes off the brachial plexus. Brachial plexus is responsible for cutaneous and muscular innervation of the entire upper limb-Drave 10
What nerve controls quadriceps muscle group?
Femoral nerve
What action does the femoral nerve do?
Nerves do not have actions. Muscles do, but nerves go to certain receptors. The femoral nerve is the largest in the lumbar plexus and divides into many branches, and supplies the thigh muscles and leg and skin cutaneous receptors (feeling).
What major nerves arise from the sacral?
The nerves that arise from the lumbar plexus are femoral, obturator, lateral femoral cutaneous, genitofemoral, illoinguinal and illohypogastric nerve. As part of lumbosacral plexus, it is the nervous plexus that is found in the lumbar region.
Which nerve plexus contains the femoral nerve?
The lumbar plexus
What structure pass through the adductor subsartorial canal?
femoral artery and femoral vein, saphenous nerve and nerve to vastus medialis
Why femoral nerve lies outside from femoral triangle?
The femoral sheath is a downward prolongation of abdominal fascial lining into the lower limbs. It covers the femoral vessels and lymphatics for about 1.5 inches into the thigh. But the femoral nerve, which is the principal nerve of lower limb, lies outside this sheath. The reason is that the major nerves lie outside the fascial envelope.
What is the 12 pairs of peripheral nerves that branch out from the brain?
You are speaking of the 12 cranial nerves:I. Olfactory nerve which branches out of the telencephalonII. Optic which branches out of the diencephalonIII. Oculomotor nerve which branches out of the mesencephalonIV. Trochlear nerve nerve which branches out of the mesencephalonV. Trigeminal nerve which branches out of the ponsVI. Abducens nerve which branches out of the ponsVII. Facial nerve which branches out of the ponsVIII. Vestibulochochlear nerve which branches out of the ponsIX. Glossopharangeal nerve nerve which branches out of the medullaX. Vagus nerve nerve which branches out of the medullaXI. Accessory nerve nerve which branches out of the medulla & cervical spineXII. Hypoglossal nerve nerve which branches out of the medulla
What does the femur protect?
The femur protects the deep femoral artery as well as the femoral nerve.
What is the root value of femoral nerve?
l2l3l4
What nerves control the quadriceps?
The femoral nerve.
What happens if you get near a nerve giving an buttocks injection?
The femoral nerve.
What major nerve serves the posterior leg and thigh?
the posterior femoral nerve.
