saphenous nerve in dogs

The largest cutaneous branch of the femoral nerve. [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the saphenous nerve is

The largest cutaneous branch of the femoral nerve. [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the saphenous nerve is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the saphenous nerve connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of femoral nerve.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the saphenous nerve. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as nervus saphenus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002475, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: femoral nerve.
• A kind of: leg nerve.
• branching part of: femoral nerve.

Questions

Where is the saphenous nerve?

It sits in the hindlimb, within the nervous system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the saphenous nerve connect to?

Part of: femoral nerve.

Is the saphenous nerve the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.