Nerve: Inferior gluteal nerve
Plan of sacral and pudendal plexuses. (Inferior gluteal nerve labeled at upper left.)
The gluteus medius and nearby muscles
Latin	nervus gluteus inferior
Gray's	subject #213 659
Innervates	gluteus maximus
From	sacral plexus (L5–S2)

The inferior gluteal nerve is a nerve in the pelvis that innervates the gluteus maximus muscle.

[edit] Structure

The inferior gluteal nerve originates in the sacral plexus. It arises from the dorsal divisions of the fifth lumbar and first and second sacral nerves: it leaves the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen, below the piriformis, and divides into branches which enter the deep surface of the gluteus maximus, the principal extensor of the thigh, and supply it. it also gives off small branches to to supply the deep gluteal muscles

[edit] See also

• Superior gluteal nerve
• Inferior gluteal artery

[edit] External links

• Duke Orthopedics inferior_gluteal_nerve

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v • d • e Nerves of lower limbs and lower torso: the lumbosacral plexus (L1-Co) (TA A14.2.05-07, GA 9.948) lumbar plexus (L1-L4) iliohypogastric lateral cutaneous branch · anterior cutaneous branch ilioinguinal anterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀ genitofemoral femoral branch/lumboinguinal · genital branch lateral cutaneous of thigh patellar obturator anterior (cutaneous) · posterior · accessory femoral anterior cutaneous branches · saphenous (infrapatellar, medial crural cutaneous) sacral plexus (L4-S4) sciatic common fibular lateral sural cutaneous (sural communicating branch) · deep fibular (lateral terminal branch, medial terminal branch, dorsal digital) · superficial fibular (medial dorsal cutaneous, intermediate dorsal cutaneous, dorsal digital) tibial medial sural cutaneous · medial calcaneal · medial plantar (common plantar digital nerves, proper plantar digital) · lateral plantar (deep branch, superficial branch, common plantar digital, proper plantar digital) sural lateral dorsal cutaneous · lateral calcaneal other muscular: superior gluteal/inferior gluteal · lateral rotator group (to quadratus femoris, to obturator internus, to the piriformis) cutaneous: posterior cutaneous of thigh (inferior cluneal, perineal branches) · perforating cutaneous coccygeal plexus (S4-Co) pudendal: inferior anal · perineal (deep, posterior scrotal ♂/labial ♀) · dorsal of the penis ♂/clitoris ♀ anococcygeal cutaneous innervation of the lower limbs