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sciatic nerve
composed of spinal nerves VII, VIII, IX united to send impulses to the hind leg.
sciatic plexus
the uniting of spinal nerves VII, VIII, IX to form the sciatic nerve to the hind leg.
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In the 1700s, Luigi Galvani showed that electrically stimulating the sciatic nerve of a dissected frog caused movement of the attached muscle.
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In his discovery of "animal electricity," Luigi Galvani made a leg of a dead frog kick as in life by touching a sciatic nerve with his scalpel, to which he had inadvertently transferred a negative, static-electric charge, ...
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