nervus femoralis

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Noun

1.nervus femoralis - one of a pair of nerves that originate from lumbar nerves and supply the muscles and skin of the anterior part of the thighanterior crural nerve, femoral nervethigh - the part of the leg between the hip and the kneenervus spinalis, spinal nerve - any of the 31 pairs of nerves emerging from each side of the spinal cord (each attached to the cord by two roots: ventral and dorsal)