Thoracic Limb Innervation Flashcards
Motor innervation (target organ; nerve type)
Skeletal; Ventral branch of spinal nerve (motor nerves)
Sensory innervation (target organ; nerve type)
Skin; dorsal branches of spinal nerve (cutaneous branch)
ANS Innervation (target organs; nerve type)
Smooth muscle and glands; sympathetic portion of ANS nerves that join spinal nerves
Location of Brachial Plexus
C6-T2
Brachial Plexus gives origin to the nerves that innervate…
1) muscles, bones, and skin of thoracic limb
2) parts of shoulder muscle
3) lateral wall of the thorax/abdomen
4) diaphragm/phrenic nerve
What is the brachial plexus
Network of ventral branches of C6-C8 and T1 and T2
Nerve 1 of brachial plexus
Suprascapular
Nerve 2 of brachial plexus
Subscapular
Nerve 3 of brachial plexus
Axillary
Nerve 4 of brachial plexus
Musculocutaneous
Nerve 5 of brachial plexus
Radial
Nerve 6 of brachial plexus
Median
Nerve 7 of brachial plexus
Ulnar
Origin of Suprascapular nerve
C6 & C7
Subscapular nerve innervates
Supraspinatus m. & Infraspinatus m.