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Noun: anterior crural nerve
  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
    "Damage to the anterior crural nerve can result in weakness of the quadriceps muscle";
    - femoral nerve, nervus femoralis

Derived forms: anterior crural nerves

Type of: nervus spinalis, spinal nerve

Part of: thigh