Median Nerve Anatomy
Note: Only muscles innervated by
median nerve shown
Musculocutaneous nerve, Median nerve (C6,
7, 8, T1), Inconstant contribution, Pronator teres muscle (superficial head), Articular
branch, Flexor carpi radialis muscle, Palmaris longus muscle, Pronator teres
muscle (deep head), Flexor digitorum superficialis muscle (turned up), Anterior
interosseous nerve, Flexor pollicis longus muscle,
Pronator quadratus muscle, Palmar
branch of median nerve, Abductor pollicis brevis, Opponens pollicis, Superficial
head of flexor pollicis brevis (deep head often supplied by ulnar nerve), Thenar
muscles 1st and 2nd lumbrical muscles, Dorsal branches to skin of dorsum of
middle and distal phalangeal bones, Medial, Posterior, Lateral, Cords of brachial
plexus, Medial brachial cutaneous nerve, Medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve, Axillary
nerve, Radial nerve, Ulnar nerve, Cutaneous innervation, Palmar view, Posterior
(dorsal) view, Proper palmar digital nerves, Common palmar digital nerves, Communicating
branch of median nerve with ulnar nerve, Flexor digitorum profundus muscle (lateral
part supplied by median [anterior interosseous] nerve; medial part supplied by
ulnar nerve).
