saphenous nerve

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 human body.

Where the saphenous nerve is

It sits in the lower limb, within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the saphenous nerve connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of femoral nerve, hindlimb and leg, and 1 more.

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, hindlimb, leg and limb.
• A kind of: nerve.
• branching part of: femoral nerve.

Questions

Where is the saphenous nerve?

It sits in the lower limb, within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the saphenous nerve connect to?

Part of: femoral nerve, hindlimb, leg and limb.

Is the saphenous nerve the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.