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pudendal nerve
Updated on 04/19/2018
a combined sensory and motor nerve that carries fibers to the muscles and skin of the perineal region from branches of the second, third, and fourth sacral nerves (see
spinal nerve
). It terminates as the dorsal nerve of the penis or clitoris.
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