THE LUMBAR PLEXUS. 



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branch. It was larger than normal, its size being that of the normal external cutaneous, and it 

 emerged from the deep fascia below Poupart's ligament directly anterior to the femoral vein. It 



Fig. iioS. 



Psoas parvus 



Genito-crural nerve 

 Psoas magnus 



Anterior crural nerve 



External cutaneous nerve 



Genital branch of genito-crural 



Sartorius, stump 



Branch to pectineus 



Branch to rectus femoris 

 Branch to vastus externus 



Rectus femoris 



Middle cutaneous nerve 



Rectus femoris 



Accessory obturator 



Crural branch of 



genito-crural 

 Ilio-inguinal nerve 



Pectineus 

 Adductor longus 



Internal saphenous 



nerve 

 Internal cutaneous 



nei"ve 



Muscular branch of 

 superficial division 

 of obturator nerve 



Branch from internal saphenous 

 to subsartorial plexus 



Branch to vastus internus 



Anterior branch of internal cutaneous 



Cutaneous branch of superficial division 

 of obturator nerve 



Posterior branch of internal cutaneous 



From posterior branch of internal cutaneous 



Articular branch from nerve to vastus 

 nternus 



Cutaneous patellar branch of internal 

 saphenous nerve 



-Internal saphenous nerve 



Dissection of right thigh, showing branches of anterior crural nerve. 



divided into a smaller mesial and larger lateral branch and was distributed to the integument of 

 the thigh as far down as the junction of the middle and lower thirds. 



