Anococcygeal nerve

Anococcygeal nerve
Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses (anococcygeal nerve not labeled, but visible at bottom right)
Details
From	Coccygeal plexus
Identifiers
Latin	Nervus anococcygeus
TA	A14.2.07.045
FMA	19038
*Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy* [edit on Wikidata]

The anococcygeal nerve is a nerve in the pelvis which provides sensory innervation to the skin over the coccyx.

Structure

The anococcygeal nerve arises from a small plexus known as the coccygeal plexus. It pierces the sacrotuberous ligament to supply the skin in the region of the coccyx as well as the sacrococcygeal joint.

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Coccyx pain, tailbone pain, coccydynia (Peer-reviewed medical chapter, available free online at eMedicine)

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ilioinguinal	anterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀

genitofemoral	femoral branch genital branch

Lateral cutaneous	patellar

obturator	anterior cutaneous posterior accessory

femoral	anterior cutaneous branches saphenous (infrapatellar medial crural cutaneous

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tibial	medial sural cutaneous medial calcaneal medial plantar (common plantar digital nerves proper plantar digital) lateral plantar (deep branch superficial branch common plantar digital proper plantar digital)

sural	lateral dorsal cutaneous lateral calcaneal

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