Nerve to quadratus femoris

The nerve to quadratus femoris is a nerve that provides innervation to the quadratus femoris and gemellus inferior muscles.

Nerve to quadratus femoris
Details
Fromsacral plexus (L4-L5)
InnervatesQuadratus femoris, Inferior gemellus
Identifiers
LatinNervus musculi quadrati femoris
TA98A14.2.07.030
TA26551
FMA78705
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

Course

The nerve to quadratus femoris is a sacral plexus nerve. It arises from the ventral divisions of the fourth and fifth lumbar and first sacral nerves: it leaves the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen, below the piriformis muscle, and runs down in front of the sciatic nerve, the superior and inferior gemellus muscles, and the tendon of the obturator internus, and enters the anterior surfaces of the muscles; it gives an articular branch to the hip-joint.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 957 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)


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