femoral nerve

1. 1.

   one of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh

   Synonymsnervus femoralisanterior crural nerve

   Broaderspinal nerve

   Part ofthigh

Questions about femoral nerve

What does femoral nerve mean?

femoral nerve means "one of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thigh".

What is another word for femoral nerve?

Close synonyms include nervus femoralis, anterior crural nerve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is femoral nerve a common word?

femoral nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.