Anococcygeal nerve

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
TA98	A14.2.07.045
TA2	6599
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.^[1]

Structure[]

The anococcygeal nerve arises from the coccygeal plexus.^[2] 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 page 968 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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