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sciatic nerve

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001322

A large nerve that supplies nearly the whole of the skin of the leg, the muscles of the back of the thigh, and those of the leg and foot. It begins in the lower back and runs through the buttock and down the lower limb. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatic_nerve ]

Term info

database cross reference
  • UMLS:C0036394 (ncithesaurus:Sciatic_Nerve)
  • Wikipedia:Sciatic_nerve
  • FMA:19034
  • EFO:0001417
  • MESH:D012584
  • CALOHA:TS-0899
  • SCTID:181050003
  • VHOG:0000894
  • NCIT:C52810
  • EMAPA:18577
  • EHDAA2:0001779
  • BIRNLEX:1133
  • BTO:0001221
  • GAID:852
  • UMLS:C0036394 (BIRNLEX:1133)
  • MA:0001172
  • EHDAA:5659
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000008

mouse sciatic nerve origins predominantly from the third lumbar (L3) and L4 spinal nerves, unlike the L4 and L5 in rats - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700063/

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Gray1244.png

has related synonym

nervus sciaticus, ischiadic nerve, nervus ischiadicus, ischiatic nerve

id

UBERON:0001322

prefLabel

Sciatic nerve

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606