adductor brev·is (br v  s)n. A muscle with origin in the superior ramus of the pubis, with insertion to the linea aspera, with nerve supply from the obturator nerve, and whose action adducts the thigh. |
adductor brevis,
a somewhat triangular muscle in the thigh and one of the five medial femoral muscles. It acts to adduct and rotate the thigh laterally and to flex the leg. Compare adductor longus, adductor magnus, gracilis, pectineus.
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