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sciatic nerve
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001322
A large nerve that supplies nearly the whole of the skin of the leg, the muscles of the back of the thigh, and those of the leg and foot. It begins in the lower back and runs through the buttock and down the lower limb. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatic_nerve ]
Term info
Label
sciatic nerve
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Gray1244.png
has obo namespace
uberon
has related synonym
nervus sciaticus, ischiadic nerve, nervus ischiadicus, ischiatic nerve
id
UBERON:0001322
taxon notes
mouse sciatic nerve origins predominantly from the third lumbar (L3) and L4 spinal nerves, unlike the L4 and L5 in rats - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700063/
Term relations
Subclass of:
- nerve
- neuron projection bundle
- innervates some skin of leg
- has_part some (part of some leg)
- part of some lumbosacral nerve plexus