Archive image from page 739 of Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy (1914). Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy cunninghamstextb00cunn Year: 1914 ( 706 THE NEEVOUS SYSTEM. muuicates with a similar branch of the ulnar nerve. This branch is not always present. . . Branches in the Hand.—In the hand the median nerve gives oh its terminal branches. These are muscular and cutaneous. The main muscular branch arises just distal to the transverse carpal ligament and passes to the base of the thenar eminence; entering the ball of the thumb super- ficially on the medial side, it supplies branches to the abdu

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Archive image from page 739 of Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy (1914). Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy cunninghamstextb00cunn Year: 1914 ( 706 THE NEEVOUS SYSTEM. muuicates with a similar branch of the ulnar nerve. This branch is not always present. . . Branches in the Hand.—In the hand the median nerve gives oh its terminal branches. These are muscular and cutaneous. The main muscular branch arises just distal to the transverse carpal ligament and passes to the base of the thenar eminence; entering the ball of the thumb super- ficially on the medial side, it supplies branches to the abductor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis, and the flexor pollicis brevis. Radial (R. Superficialis) £ . ('Medial < cutaneous [OF ARM flNTERCOSTO- \brachial Musculo- 'I _ CUTANEOUS) J Medial \ cutaneous of forearm Volar br. (median) Volar br. (Ulnar) Ulnar

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