Medical Dictionary

ilioinguinal nerve

noun

Medical Definition of ILIOINGUINAL NERVE

:  a branch of the first lumbar nerve that is distributed to the muscles of the anterolateral wall of the abdomen, to the skin of the proximal and medial part of the thigh, and to the base of the penis and the scrotum in the male or the mons veneris and labia majora in the female

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