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

Type of: nervus spinalis, spinal nerve

Part of: thigh

Encyclopedia: Nervus femoralis