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sciatic nerve

Go to external page 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

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Gray1244.png

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/