median nerve neuropathy
Findings
No curated finding names median nerve neuropathy yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
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).
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0003598), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: median nerve neuropathy
- Also called
- median nerve peripheral neuropathyperipheral neuropathy of median nerve