Lateral cord
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| Nerve: Lateral cord | ||
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| Plan of brachial plexus. (Lateral cord is at top.) | ||
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| The right brachial plexus with its short branches, viewed from in front. The Sternomastoid and Trapezius muscles have been completely, the Omohyoid and Subclavius have been partially, removed; a piece has been sawed out of the clavicle; the Pectoralis muscles have been incised and reflected. | ||
| Latin | fasciculus lateralis plexus brachialis | |
| Gray's | subject #210 933 | |
| From | brachial plexus - anterior divisions from the upper and middle trunks | |
| To | lateral pectoral nerve musculocutaneous nerve median nerve |
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| Dorlands/Elsevier | f_03/12355977 | |
The Lateral cord is a division of the brachial plexus.
The lateral cord gives rise to the following nerves:
- The lateral pectoral nerve, C5, C6 and C7 to the pectoralis major muscle
- The musculocutaneous nerve which innervates the biceps muscle
- The median nerve, partly. The other part comes from the medial cord.
[edit] External links
- Atlas of anatomy at UMich hand_plexus - "Axilla, dissection, anterior view"
- EatonHand ner-123
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| Nerves of upper limbs (primarily): the brachial plexus |
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| supraclavicular: dorsal scapular - suprascapular - to the subclavius - long thoracic
infraclavicular: lateral cord: musculocutaneous (lateral cutaneous of forearm) - lateral pectoral - lateral head of median (anterior interosseous, palmar, common palmar digital, proper palmar digital) medial cord: medial pectoral - medial cutaneous of forearm - medial cutaneous of arm - ulnar (muscular branches, dorsal branch, palmar branch, superficial branch, deep branch) - medial head of median posterior cord: subscapular (upper, lower) - thoracodorsal - axillary (superior lateral cutaneous of arm) - radial (muscular, inferior lateral cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of forearm, superficial branch, deep branch, posterior interosseous) |
