(Netter Basic Science) Frank H. Netter - Atlas of Human Anatomy-Elsevier (2018)

Median Nerve
See also Plates 404, 436, 437
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Note: Only muscles innervated by median nerve shown.
Musculocutaneous nerve
Median nerve (C6, 7, 8, T1)
Inconstant contribution
Pronator teres muscle (superficial head)
Articular branch
Flexor carpi radialis muscle
Palmaris longus muscle
Pronator teres muscle (deep head)
Flexor digitorum superficialis muscle
(turned up)
Flexor digitorum profundus muscle
(lateral part supplied by median
[anterior interosseous] nerve; medial
part supplied by ulnar nerve)
Anterior interosseous nerve
Flexor pollicis longus muscle
Pronator quadratus muscle
Palmar branch of median nerve
Medial
Posterior
Lateral
Medial brachial
cutaneous nerve
Medial antebrachial
cutaneous nerve
Axillary nerve
Radial nerve
Ulnar nerve
Cords of
brachial
plexus
Cutaneous
innervation
Thenar
muscles
Abductor pollicis brevis
Opponens pollicis
Superficial head of
flexor pollicis brevis
(deep head often
supplied by
ulnar nerve)
1st and 2nd
lumbrical muscles
Communicating branch
of median nerve with
ulnar nerve
Common palmar
digital nerves
Palmar view
Dorsal branches to skin of
dorsum of middle and
distal phalangeal bones
Proper palmar
digital nerves
Posterior (dorsal) view
Neurovasculature Plate 466
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