Anatom3DMusculocutaneous nerve
Nervus musculocutaneus · Kožní nerv svalový (muskulokutánní)
Nervous system
Looks like
A branch of the lateral cord that pierces coracobrachialis and runs between biceps and brachialis.
What it does
Moves the front arm muscles that bend the elbow and brings feeling from the outer forearm.
Keeping it well
Rarely injured alone; damage weakens elbow bending and turning the palm up, with outer forearm numbness.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rabies
- Restless legs syndrome
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shoulder dislocation
- Tetanus
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies