Uberon definition : A large nerve that supplies nearly the whole of the skin of the leg, the muscles of
the back of the thigh, and those of the leg and foot. It begins in the lower back
and runs through the buttock and down the lower limb.;
Uberon related term : ischiatic nerve; nervus sciaticus; ischiadic nerve;
Uberon Taxon note : mouse sciatic nerve origins predominantly from the third lumbar (L3) and L4 spinal
nerves, unlike the L4 and L5 in rats - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700063/;
A large nerve that supplies nearly the whole of the skin of the leg, the muscles of
the back of the thigh, and those of the leg and foot. It begins in the lower back
and runs through the buttock and down the lower limb.