18 (86)

63

SKELETAL MUSCULAR SYSTEM / LOWER LIMB

amsc§ćk§© <§x? rroas

CN: Color one muscle at a time in the five mam views before going to the next one. Notę ihat the attachment sites on the posterior surface of the femur are represented by dotted lines.

tP&tSfTOGO&BD&A 5)®©Q5(Si7©R} © ®>®£>Q5@1T®© Ł®C®@Q5©c

®(Ś5^®0Q»C©£

©©w^o&afr©® cfsfftrci®®®©^

ATTACHMENT SITES

Patena

Adductor hiatus for femoral artery and vein

F'bula

ANTERIOR

VIEW

DEEP

INTERMEDIATE

SUPERFICIAL

Adductor tubercie ton posterior surface)

The media! thigh muscles consist of the hip joint adductors (A through E) and obturator externus. a lateral rotator of that joint The latter was colored on Platę 61 as one ot the deep gluteal muscles, as its tendon passes into that region. However, it is com-partmentalized by fasciae in the mediai thigh, covers the externai surface of the obturator foramer in 'he deep upper mediai thigh, and receives the same innervation as the adductors. The graciiis is the long-

r\i fha aHHiirtrłf nrm in orncenr fha    /-iHir» 1 i

(f!exing it). and inserts only on the mediai tibia: ils tendon ;oms the tendons of sartonus and semiten-dmosus to form an inserticn shaped like a goose s foct (hence called the pes ansermus) The acductcr magnus is the most massive of the grcuo (see pos 'erior view). in its iower hall. adductor magnus fibers give ;vay to the passage of the femoral vesseis adductor hiatus). Ali the adductors, except graciiis. nsert on the vertical rough iine (linea aspera) on the