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... > Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Spinal Nerves > Lumbosacral Plexus > Obturator Nerve

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Obturator Nerve  

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  • dis: coord IM with PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES (IM); neopl: coord IM with PERIPHERAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM)

Scope note

  • A nerve originating in the lumbar spinal cord (L2 to L4) and traveling through the lumbar plexus to the lower extremity. The obturator nerve provides motor innervation to the adductor muscles of the thigh and cutaneous sensory innervation of the inner thigh.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009776

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