Inferior lateral cutaneous nerve of arm

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Nerve: Inferior lateral cutaneous nerve of arm
The suprascapular, axillary, and radial nerves. (Inferior lateral cutaneous nerve of arm not labeled, but cutaneous innervation would occur on the surface near the word 'radial' at upper left.)
Latin	nervus cutaneus brachii lateralis inferior
From	radial nerve
Dorlands/Elsevier	n_05/12565482

The inferior lateral cutaneous nerve of arm (also called the inferior lateral brachial cutaneous nerve) is a branch of the radial nerve that provides sensory innervation to the lower, lateral aspect of the arm.

[edit] See also

• Superior lateral cutaneous nerve of arm (a branch of the axillary nerve)
• Lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm (a continuation of the musculocutaneous nerve)
• Posterior cutaneous nerve of arm (another branch of the radial nerve)

v • d • e Nerves of upper limbs (primarily): the brachial plexus

supraclavicular: dorsal scapular - suprascapular - to the subclavius - long thoracic infraclavicular: lateral cord: musculocutaneous (lateral cutaneous of forearm) - lateral pectoral - lateral head of median (anterior interosseous, palmar, common palmar digital, proper palmar digital) medial cord: medial pectoral - medial cutaneous of forearm - medial cutaneous of arm - ulnar (muscular branches, dorsal branch, palmar branch, superficial branch, deep branch) - medial head of median posterior cord: subscapular (upper, lower) - thoracodorsal - axillary (superior lateral cutaneous of arm) - radial (muscular, inferior lateral cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of arm, posterior cutaneous of forearm, superficial branch, deep branch, posterior interosseous) cutaneous innervation of the upper limbs