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Descriptor English: Obturator Nerve
Descriptor Spanish: Nervio Obturador
Descriptor nervio obturador
Scope note: Nervio que tiene su origen en la médula espinal lumbar (de L2 a L4) y discurre a través del plexo lumbar hasta la extremidad inferior. El nervio obturador proporciona inervación motora a los músculos aductores del muslo e inervación sensitiva cutánea a la porción interna del muslo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Nervo Obturador
Descriptor French: Nerf obturateur
Entry term(s): Nerve, Obturator
Nerves, Obturator
Obturator Nerves
Tree number(s): A08.800.800.720.450.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009776
Scope note: A nerve originating in the lumbar spinal cord (L2 to L4) and traveling through the lumbar plexus to the lower extremity. The obturator nerve provides motor innervation to the adductor muscles of the thigh and cutaneous sensory innervation of the inner thigh.
Annotation: dis: coord IM with PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES (IM); neopl: coord IM with PERIPHERAL NERVE NEOPLASMS (IM) + histol type of neopl (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
DeCS ID: 9961
Unique ID: D009776
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Obturator Nerve - Preferred
Concept UI M0015178
Scope note A nerve originating in the lumbar spinal cord (L2 to L4) and traveling through the lumbar plexus to the lower extremity. The obturator nerve provides motor innervation to the adductor muscles of the thigh and cutaneous sensory innervation of the inner thigh.
Preferred term Obturator Nerve
Entry term(s) Nerve, Obturator
Nerves, Obturator
Obturator Nerves



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