Medial compartment of thigh

Medial compartment of thigh

Cross-section through the middle of the thigh. (Medial compartment is at center right.)

Anterior hip muscles
Details
Artery obturator artery
Nerve obturator nerve (femoral nerve for Pectineus muscle)
Identifiers
Latin compartimentum femoris mediale
TA A04.7.01.004
FMA 45160

Anatomical terminology

The medial compartment of thigh is one of the fascial compartments of the leg and contains the hip adductor muscles and the gracilis muscle.

The obturator nerve is the primary nerve supplying this compartment.

The muscles in the compartment are:

The obturator externus muscle is sometimes considered part of this group,[1][2][3] and sometimes excluded.[4] (Spatially, it is in this location, but functionally, it is more similar to the other lateral rotator group muscles).

The pectineus is sometimes included in this group,[1][3] and sometimes excluded.[2][4] (It has the same function as the others in this group, but different innervation – namely, the femoral nerve.)

References

  1. 1 2 Ellis, Harold; Susan Standring; Gray, Henry David (2005). Gray's anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 0-443-07168-3.
  2. 1 2 Sauerland, Eberhardt K.; Patrick W., PhD. Tank; Tank, Patrick W. (2005). Grant's dissector. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 129. ISBN 0-7817-5484-4.
  3. 1 2 Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 123. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.
  4. 1 2 "Summary of Lower Limb". Retrieved 2008-01-27.

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, December 26, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.