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| Nerve: Anococcygeal nerve | ||
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| Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses. (Anococcygeal nerve not labeled, but visible at bottom right.) | ||
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| Latin | nervus anococcygeus | |
| Gray's | subject #213 968 | |
| Innervates | ||
| From | pudendal plexus | |
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| MeSH | [1] | |
The anococcygeal nerve is a nerve in the pelvis which provides sensory innervation to the skin over the coccyx.
Structure[]
The anococcygeal nerve arises from a small plexus known as the coccygeal plexus. It pierce the sacrotuberous ligament to supply the skin in the region of the coccyx as well as the sacrococcygeal joint.
See also[]
- Coccyx
- Coccydynia (coccyx pain, tailbone pain)
- Ganglion impar
- Sacral plexus
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lumbar plexus: iliohypogastric - ilioinguinal - genitofemoral (femoral branch/lumboinguinal, genital branch) - lateral cutaneous of thigh (patellar) - obturator (anterior, cutaneous, posterior, accessory) - femoral (anterior cutaneous branches, saphenous)
sacral/coccygeal plexus: to quadratus femoris - to obturator internus - to the piriformis - superior gluteal - inferior gluteal - posterior cutaneous of thigh (inferior cluneal, perineal branches)
sciatic: tibial (medial sural cutaneous, sural, medial calcaneal, medial plantar, lateral plantar) - common fibular (lateral sural cutaneous, deep fibular, superficial fibular, medial dorsal cutaneous, intermediate dorsal cutaneous)
pudendal plexus: perforating cutaneous - pudendal (dorsal of the penis/clitoris, inferior anal, perineal and posterior scrotal/labial) - anococcygeal
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