femoral nerve

Questions about femoral nerve

What is another word for femoral nerve?

It depends which femoral nerve you mean. In the sense “one of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh”, the synonyms are nervus femoralis, anterior crural nerve. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of femoral nerve?

WordNet records no antonym for femoral nerve. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for femoral nerve come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of femoral nerve

• Full entry for femoral nerveAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for femoral nerveWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.