Coccygeal plexus
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| Nerve: Coccygeal plexus | ||
|---|---|---|
| Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses. | ||
| Latin | plexus coccygeus | |
| From | C4-C5, coccygeal nerve | |
| To | anococcygeal nerve | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | p_24/12647748 | |
The coccygeal plexus is a plexus of nerves near the coccyx bone.
This plexus is formed by the fifth sacral nerve (with a contribution from S4) and the coccygeal nerve. It gives rise to the anococcygeal nerve.
suboccipital - cervical (greater occipital, third occipital, cervical plexus, brachial plexus) - thoracic (intercostal - intercostobrachial - subcostal) - lumbar (lumbar plexus, lumbosacral trunk, superior cluneal nerves) - sacral (posterior branches of sacral nerves, medial cluneal nerves, sacral plexus) - coccygeal (coccygeal plexus)