In these experiment were utilized 20 adult equine forelimbs, crossbred, collected in an equine abbatoir in Campo Belo, MG. Both lateral and medial palmar nerves, lateral and medial palmar digital nerves and lateral and medial dorsal branch of the palmar digital nerve were dissected to observe the frequency of their positions and accessory ramifications. The results showed that the sile of bifurcation of the palmar nerve into palmar digital branch and its dorsal branch, occurred most frequently in the proximal region of the metacarpofalangeal joint, both at the right and left forelimbs in their medial and lateral faces. Five types of standards of divisions of the palmar nerve into palmar digital branch and its dorsal branch with predominance of the type one were observed.
anaesthesia; nerve block; inervation of the equine forelimb
