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| |Nerve: Palmar branch of the median nerve| |Superficial palmar
nerves.| |Deep palmar nerves.| |Latin||ramus palmaris nervi
mediani| |Gray's||subject #210 938| The palmar branch of the
median nerve arises at the lower part of the forearm. It pierces
the volar carpal ligament, and divides into a lateral and a
medial branch; - The lateral branch supplies the skin over the
ball of the thumb, and communicates with the volar branch of the
lateral antibrachial cutaneous nerve. - The medial branch
supplies the skin of the palm and communicates with the palmar
cutaneous branch of the ulnar. This article was originally based
on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As
such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated.
Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to
remove this notice when it is no longer relevant. |Nerves of
upper limbs (primarily):