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... > Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Spinal Nerves > Brachial Plexus > Median Nerve

Preferred term

Median Nerve  

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Note

  • dis = MEDIAN NEUROPATHY (IM); neopl = MEDIAN NEUROPATHY (IM) + PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM)

Scope note

  • A major nerve of the upper extremity. In humans, the fibers of the median nerve originate in the lower cervical and upper thoracic spinal cord (usually C6 to T1), travel via the brachial plexus, and supply sensory and motor innervation to parts of the forearm and hand.

In other languages

  • keskihermo

    Finnish

  • medianus
  • medianus-hermo
  • medianushermo
  • n. medianus
  • nervus medianus
  • Mediannerv

    Swedish

  • Medianusnerv
  • Nervus medianus

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008475

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