adductor lon·gus (l n g s)n. A muscle with origin in the symphysis and crest of the pubis, with insertion to a ridge on the shaft of the femur, with nerve supply from the obturator nerve, and whose action adducts the thigh. |
adductor longus,
the most superficial of the three adductor muscles of the thigh and one of five medial femoral muscles. It functions to adduct and flex the thigh. Compare adductor brevis, adductor magnus, gracilis, pectineus.
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