Muscular branches of the radial nerve

Muscular branches of the radial nerve
Posterior compartment of the arm, mobile wad
Identifiers
Latin	rami musculares nervi radialis
TA98	A14.2.03.053
TA2	6435
FMA	44954
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata ]

The muscular branches of the

, and are grouped as medial, posterior, and lateral.

The medial muscular branches supply the medial head of the

.

That to the medial head is a long, slender filament, which lies close to the ulnar nerve as far as the lower third of the arm, and is therefore frequently spoken of as the ulnar collateral nerve.

The posterior muscular branch, of large size, arises from the nerve in the groove between the

.

It divides into filaments, which supply the medial and lateral heads of the

anconæus

muscles.

The branch for the latter muscle is a long, slender filament, which descends in the substance of the medial head of the

triceps brachii

.

Lateral

The lateral muscular branches supply the

brachialis

.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 943 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)