Landmark · Skeletal system
Adductor tubercle
Tuberculum adductorium
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Landmark on
- Femur
DescriptionUnreviewed
The adductor tubercle is a tubercle on the lower extremity of the femur.
It is formed where the medial lips of the linea aspera end below at the summit of the medial condyle.
It is the insertion point of the tendon of the vertical fibers of the adductor magnus muscle.
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Names
- Latin
- Tuberculum adductorium
- English
- Adductor tubercle
- French
- Tubercule de l'adducteur
- Spanish
- Tubérculo aductor
- Portuguese
- Tubérculo adutor