adductor magnus muscle


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ad·duc·tor mag·nus mus·cle

(ă-dŭk'tŏr mag'nŭs mŭs'ĕl)
Origin, ischial tuberosity and ischiopubic ramus; insertion, linea aspera and adductor tubercle of femur; action, adducts and extends thigh; nerve supply, obturator and sciatic.
Synonym(s): musculus adductor magnus [TA] , great adductor muscle.

adductor magnus muscle

Hip and thigh muscle. Origin: inferior ramus of pubis, ramus of ischium, ischial tuberosity. Insertion: linea aspera and adductor tubercle of femur. Nerve: obturator and sciatic (L2-L4). Action: adducts, flexes, and rotates thigh medially.
See: leg for illus. (Muscles of the leg)
See also: muscle
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Limitations of the present study include that we arbitrarily selected the NEP of the adductor magnus muscle branch as an example, and we did not describe NEPs for the obturator and femoral muscle nerve branches of our two cadavers.
1 = gracilis muscle branch of the obturator nerve; 2 = adductor longus muscle branch; 3 = adductor brevis muscle branch; 4 = adductor magnus muscle branch; 5 = pectineus muscle branch; 6 = femoral nerve trunk.
A Novel Method for Localizing Nerve Entry Points During Spasticity Treatment/Un Nuevo Metodo para Localizar los Puntos de Entrada del Nervio Durante el Tratamiento de la Espasticidad
Then it passes anterior to the adductor magnus muscle, dividing into branches to adductor magnus and occasionally the adductor brevis.
1,2,23) In our study, we have described the possible sites of entrapment of the posterior division by the branches of the obturator and medial circumflex femoral vessels as they cross the posterior division of the obturator nerve at the obturator foramen and anterior to the proximal part of the adductor magnus muscle.
Critical sites of entrapment of the posterior division of the obturator nerve: anatomical considerations

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