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Skin feeling supplied by the median nerve
Healthwise Staff, HealthLinkBC (Healthwise patient education), 2022
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- A patient education page from the British Columbia public health information service, reviewed by physicians, that maps which parts of the skin the median nerve supplies with feeling.
- How much weight it carries
- Public health information written for patients and reviewed by clinicians. It gives the skin map in plain terms and does not list the nerve's movement functions, so it is a summary rather than an anatomy text.
Facts taken from this source
- The median nerve supplies feeling to the skin of the thumb, index finger, middle finger and half of the ring finger.
“The median nerve supplies feeling to the skin of the thumb, index finger, middle finger, and half of the ring finger.” (Page text)
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