obturator nerve

When it is absent, the hip-joint receives two branches from the obturator nerve.

The obturator nerve is the primary nerve supplying this compartment.

The obturator nerve crosses superficial to it.

Cutaneous branch of the obturator nerve (yellow region, not designated with its own section)

Occasionally the accessory obturator nerve is very small and is lost in the capsule of the hip-joint.

It occurs in patients with an obturator hernia, due to compression of the obturator nerve.

The obturator artery, obturator vein, and obturator nerve all travel through the canal.

Gracilis flexes and medially rotates tibia at knee; innervated by the obturator nerve.

The Obturator nerve is responsible for the sensory innervation of the skin of the medial aspect of the thigh.

The adductor brevis is innervated dually by the anterior and posterior branches of the obturator nerve.

Through the canal the obturator artery, obturator vein and obturator nerve pass out of the pelvis.

One of the adductor muscles of the hip, its main function is to adduct the thigh and it is innervated by the obturator nerve.

In human anatomy, the accessory obturator nerve is an accessory nerve in the lumbar region present in about 29% of cases.

It is characterized by lancilating pain in the medial thigh/obturator distribution, extending to the knee; caused by hernia compression of the obturator nerve.

One of these supplies the pectineus, penetrating its deep surface, another is distributed to the hip-joint; while a third communicates with the anterior branch of the obturator nerve.

It has been demonstrated by the course of the posterior branch of obturator nerve that the obturator externus is divided into a superior fasciculus and a main belly.

The anterior branch of the obturator nerve is a branch of the obturator nerve found in the pelvis and leg.

As part of the medial compartment of the thigh, the adductor longus is innervated by the anterior division (sometimes the posterior division) of the obturator nerve.

By its posterior surface with the adductor magnus and the posterior branches of the obturator artery, the obturator vein, and the obturator nerve.

The other adductor muscles are innervated by the obturator nerve with the exception of a small part of the adductor magnus which is innervated by the tibial nerve.

Beneath the fascia lata, at the lower border of the adductor longus, it joins to form a plexiform net-work (subsartorial plexus) with branches of the saphenous and obturator nerves.

The iliolumbar artery turns upward behind the obturator nerve and the external iliac artery and vein, to the medial border of the psoas major, behind which it divides into:

Innervation is by the femoral nerve (L2 and L3) and occasionally (20% of the population) a branch of the obturator nerve called the accessory obturator nerve.

In the pelvic cavity this vessel is in relation, laterally, with the obturator fascia; medially, with the ureter, ductus deferens, and peritoneum; while a little below it is the obturator nerve.

F- femoral nerve O- obturator nerve T- tibial nerve (one of the two component nerves of the sciatic nerve [the other being the common fibular (or common peroneal) nerve].