- Coccygeal plexus
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Nerve: Coccygeal plexus Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses. Latin plexus coccygeus Gray's subject #213 966 From S4-S5, coccygeal nerve To anococcygeal nerve The coccygeal plexus is a plexus of nerves near the coccyx bone.
Structure
This plexus is formed by the fifth sacral nerve (with a contribution from S4) and the coccygeal nerve. It gives rise to the anococcygeal nerve.
See also
External links
- Coccygeal+plexus at eMedicine Dictionary
- Description at uams.edu
- Coccyx pain (tailbone pain, coccydynia) (Peer-reviewed medical chapter, available free online at eMedicine)
Nerves: spinal nerves (TA A14.2, GA 9.916) Cervical (8) Thoracic (12) T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12
anterior (Intercostal, Intercostobrachial – T2, Thoraco-abdominal nerves – T7–T11, Subcostal – T12) – posterior (Posterior branches of thoracic nerves)Lumbar (5)
anterior (Lumbar plexus, Lumbosacral trunk) · posterior (Posterior branches of the lumbar nerves, Superior cluneal L1–L3)Sacral (5) Coccygeal (1) Nerves of lower limbs and lower torso: the lumbosacral plexus (L1–Co) (TA A14.2.05–07, GA 9.948) lumbar
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(S4–Co)Categories:- Nerve plexus
- Spinal nerves
- Nerves of the lower limb and lower torso
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