Diseases

Median Neuropathy

Disease involving the median nerve, from its origin at the BRACHIAL PLEXUS to its termination in the hand. Clinical features include weakness of wrist and finger flexion, forearm pronation, thenar abduction, and loss of sensation over the lateral palm, first three fingers, and radial half of the ring finger. Common sites of injury include the elbow, where the nerve passes through the two heads of the pronator teres muscle (pronator syndrome) and in the carpal tunnel (CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME).

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Disease involving the median nerve, from its origin at the BRACHIAL PLEXUS to its termination in the hand. Clinical features include weakness of wrist and finger flexion, forearm pronation, thenar abduction, and loss of sensation over the lateral palm, first three fingers, and radial half of the ring finger. Common sites of injury include the elbow, where the nerve passes through the two heads of the pronator teres muscle (pronator syndrome) and in the carpal tunnel (CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME).

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28 entry terms
  • Median Mononeuropathy
  • Median Nerve Diseases
  • Median Nerve Neuropathy
  • Neuropathy, Median
  • Median Mononeuropathies
  • Median Nerve Disease
  • Median Nerve Neuropathies
  • Median Neuropathies
  • Mononeuropathy, Median
  • Nerve Disease, Median
  • Nerve Neuropathy, Median
  • Neuropathy, Median Nerve
  • Medial Neuropathy, Distal
  • Median Nerve Entrapment
  • Median Nerve Entrapment Neuropathy
  • Median Nerve Neuralgia
  • Median Neuropathy, Proximal
  • Distal Medial Neuropathies
  • Distal Medial Neuropathy
  • Entrapment, Median Nerve
  • Median Nerve Entrapments
  • Median Nerve Neuralgias
  • Nerve Entrapment, Median
  • Neuralgia, Median Nerve
  • Neuropathy, Distal Medial
  • Neuropathy, Proximal Median
  • Proximal Median Neuropathies
  • Proximal Median Neuropathy

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

pronator nerve syndrome: coordinate with NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES

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History Note

2000

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Previous Indexing

  • Median Nerve (1967-1999)

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  1. C10w.668w.829w.500w.500

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Median Neuropathy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020423. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020423
  2. Median Neuropathy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18556959