Perilous Points of Passage
Often associated with the funny bone, this PPP is not one that your pinky will find funny.
What is ulnar groove?
Hip flexion can be described as being this myotome.
What is L2?
Nerves bringing sensory information to the spinal cord are considered this.
What is afferent?
The spinal segments C5-T1 make up this essential plexus.
What is brachial plexus?
This person puts Christmas gifts under the tree every year on December 24th.
Who is my mom (dad)?
Talk about crowded, 9 tendons and a nerve travel through this tight passage of the body.
What is carpal tunnel?
If you are ever feeling "nip-picky" about dermatomes, you'll find this dermatome mid chest.
What is T4?
Sensory neurons enter the spinal cord through this anatomical structure.
What is dorsal ramus?
The pudendal nerve, AKA U-turn nerve, is associated with this plexus.
What is sacral plexus?
The german folk song O'Tannenbaum is about this holiday staple.
What is Christmas tree?
This anatomical structure is associated with a proximal humeral fracture resulting in damage to the axillary nerve.
What is surgical neck of the humerus?
Not knowing this dermatome will make you the "heel" of every joke.
What is S1?
The cell bodies are located in this area of the spinal cord.
What is gray matter?
The diaphragm is an important muscle that is innervated by three spinal segments that are made from this plexus.
What is cervical plexus?
During the medieval British times, the medieval monks put a twist on the popular beverage posset by putting figs and eggs in it.
What is eggnog?
Variations of the sciatic nerve have been known to pierce this muscle.
What is piriformis muscle?
Shingles commonly present with rashes following specific lines along the torso that this map helps identify.
What is dermatome map?
The 12 cranial nerves are part of this nervous system.
What is peripheral nervous system?
Loss of sensation of the medial aspect of the arm and forearm would be associated to damage of this trunk.
What is inferior trunk?
This song, more commonly known as Oh Come All Ye Faithful, fills the streets at Christmas time.
Sometimes known as Saturday Night Palsy, this nerve entrapment site usually presents with wrist drop.
What is radial groove?
You do not want to be caught in a boxing match without this myotome.
What is C8
Sympathetic nerves have synapses in this nerve structure.
What is sympathetic (trunk) ganglion?
Loss of cutaneous sensation to the medial thigh is damage to this nerve of the lumbar plexus.
What is obturator?
This donkey pulls Santa's slay because the reindeer cannot climb the hills of Italy.
Who is Dominick?