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The musculocutaneous nerve is a terminal branch of the brachial plexus. Its purpose is to allow the forearm’s flexion; it is also responsible for the sensitive innervation of the forearm’s lateral face until the thumb. It is a mixed nerve with its main part coming from the superior trunk of the brachial plexus and its minor part coming from the reunion of the anterior divisions of the middle trunk of the brachial plexus.
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Rigoard, P. (2017). The Musculocutaneous Nerve. In: Rigoard, P. (eds) Atlas of Anatomy of the Peripheral Nerves . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43089-8_6
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