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Nerve to levator ani

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(Redirected from Levator ani nerve) Pelvic motor nerve

Nerve to levator ani
Identifiers
TA2	6552
FMA	66048
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy[edit on Wikidata]

The levator ani nerve is a nerve to the levator ani muscles. It originates from sacral spinal nerve 4.

References

Essential Clinical Anatomy. K.L. Moore & A.M. Agur. Lippincott, 2 ed. 2002. Page 217

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Nerves of the lumbosacral plexus

iliohypogastric	lateral cutaneous branch anterior cutaneous branch
ilioinguinal	anterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀
genitofemoral	femoral branch genital branch
Lateral cutaneous	patellar
obturator	anterior cutaneous posterior accessory
femoral	anterior cutaneous branches saphenous infrapatellar medial crural cutaneous

common fibular	lateral sural cutaneous communicating branch deep fibular lateral terminal branch medial terminal branch dorsal digital superficial fibular medial dorsal cutaneous intermediate dorsal cutaneous dorsal digital
tibial	medial sural cutaneous medial calcaneal medial plantar (common plantar digital nerves proper plantar digital) lateral plantar (deep branch superficial branch common plantar digital proper plantar digital)
sural	lateral dorsal cutaneous lateral calcaneal

other

coccygeal plexus

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