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1
Q

This nerve supplies the skin of the butt

A

Clunial Nerves

2
Q

What do the clunial nerves branch off of?

A

Posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh

3
Q

Are the superior and middle clunial nerves anterior or posterior rami?

A

Posterior rami

4
Q

What does the posterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh innervate?

A

Skin of the…

  • Inferior butt
  • Posterior thigh
  • Popliteal fossa
  • Lateral perineum
  • Upper medial thigh
5
Q

This is the only nerve that arises superior to the piriformis

A

Superior gluteal nerve

6
Q

What is innervated by the superior gluteal nerve?

A
  • Gluteus medius
  • Gluteus minimus
  • Tensor fasia lata
7
Q

This nerve comes out of the Greater sciatic foramen with the piriformis muscle

A

Sciatic nerve

8
Q

What does the sciatic nerve innervate? and what are its parts?

A
  • Tibial Branch
  • -hamstring m
  • Common fibular branch
  • -posterior thigh and short head of biceps femorus
9
Q

What does the inferior gluteal nerve innervate?

A

-Gluteus maximus

10
Q

This nerve is the most medial, it goes through the Greater Sciatic Foramen and dives back through the Lesser Sciatic foramen

A

The pudenal nerve

11
Q

What does the pudenal nerve innervate?

A
  • No function in the gluteal region or posterior thigh

- Main nerve of the perineal region

12
Q

What does the nerve to obterator internist innervate?

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-Obturator internist
-Superior gemellis
(goes through the lesser sciatic foramen)

13
Q

What does the nerve to quadratus femorus innervate?

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  • Quadratus femorus

- Inferior gemellus

14
Q

What does the obturator nerve innervate?

A
  • Adductor longus
  • Adductor brevis
  • Adductor magnus (adductor part)
  • Obturator externist
15
Q

What muscle of the anterior thigh is innervated by the Sciatic nerve

A

Adductor magnus - Hamstring part