When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sciatic nerve - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatic_nerve

    The sciatic nerve has no cutaneous branches for the thigh. This nerve provides the connection to the nervous system for the skin of the lateral leg and the whole foot, the muscles of the back of the thigh, and those of the leg and foot. It is derived from spinal nerves L4 to S3.

  3. Bell–Magendie law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell–Magendie_law

    Because the frog spinal cord is relatively simple and easy to remove, and the relationships between the nerve roots are more apparent, Müller could simplify his design, which also resulted in better reproducibility of the experiment. His experiment involved innervations of the hind legs of the frog. One procedure involved first severing the ...

  4. Nerve root - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_root

    A nerve root (Latin: radix nervi) is the initial segment of a nerve leaving the central nervous system.Nerve roots can be classified as: Cranial nerve roots: the initial or proximal segment of one of the twelve pairs of cranial nerves leaving the central nervous system from the brain stem or the highest levels of the spinal cord.

  5. List of nerves of the human body - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nerves_of_the...

    Distribution of the areas of the sensory roots upon the surface of the body. Structure of the nervous system; Development of the nervous system; The spinal cord or medulla spinalis; The brain or encephalon The hindbrain or rhombencephalon; The midbrain or mesencephalon; The forebrain or prosencephalon; Composition and central connections of the ...

  6. Nerve plexus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_plexus

    A nerve plexus is composed of afferent and efferent fibers that arise from the merging of the anterior rami of spinal nerves and blood vessels. There are five spinal nerve plexuses, except in the thoracic region, as well as other forms of autonomic plexuses, many of which are a part of the enteric nervous system. The nerves that arise from the ...

  7. Outline of the human nervous system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_human...

    The following diagram is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the human nervous system: Human nervous system. Human nervous system – the part of the human body that coordinates a person's voluntary and involuntary actions and transmits signals between different parts of the body.

  8. Tibial nerve - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibial_nerve

    The tibial nerve is the larger terminal branch of the sciatic nerve with root values of L4, L5, S1, S2, and S3. It lies superficial (or posterior) to the popliteal vessels, extending from the superior angle to the inferior angle of the popliteal fossa, crossing the popliteal vessels from lateral to medial side.

  9. Nervous system - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system

    The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is a collective term for the nervous system structures that do not lie within the CNS. [17] The large majority of the axon bundles called nerves are considered to belong to the PNS, even when the cell bodies of the neurons to which they belong reside within the brain or spinal cord.