Lumbosacral trunk
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| Nerve: Lumbosacral trunk | ||
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| Plan of lumbar plexus. | ||
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| Dissection of side wall of pelvis showing sacral and pudendal plexuses. | ||
| Latin | truncus lumbosacralis | |
| Gray's | subject #212 948 | |
| From | L4-L5 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | t_20/12826064 | |
The lumbosacral trunk is nervous tissue that connects the lumbar plexus with the sacral plexus.
[edit] Structure
The lumbosacral trunk comprises the whole of the anterior division of the fifth and a part of that of the fourth lumbar nerve; it appears at the medial margin of the psoas major and runs downward over the pelvic brim to join the first sacral nerve.
The anterior division of the third sacral nerve divides into an upper and a lower branch, the former entering the sacral plexus and the latter the pudendal plexus.
[edit] External links
- SUNY Labs 43:15-0103 - "The Female Pelvis: The Posterolateral Pelvic Wall"
- Anatomy at MUN nerve/lumbnerv
- Norman/Georgetown posteriorabdomen
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suboccipital - cervical (greater occipital, third occipital, cervical plexus, brachial plexus) - thoracic (intercostal - intercostobrachial - subcostal) - lumbar (lumbar plexus, lumbosacral trunk, superior cluneal nerves) - sacral (posterior branches of sacral nerves, medial cluneal nerves, sacral plexus) - coccygeal (coccygeal plexus)
