Group · Muscular system
Medial compartment of thigh
Compartimentum mediale muscle
- System
- Muscular system
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Part of
- Muscles of lower limb
DescriptionUnreviewed
The medial compartment of thigh is one of the fascial compartments of the thigh and contains the hip adductor muscles and the gracilis muscle.
The obturator nerve is the primary nerve supplying this compartment.
The obturator artery is the blood supply to the medial thigh. The muscles in the compartment are:
- gracilis
- adductor longus
- adductor brevis
- adductor magnus
The obturator externus muscle is sometimes considered part of this group, and sometimes excluded.
(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, and sometimes excluded.
It has the same function as the others in this group, but different innervation – namely, the femoral nerve.
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Muscle attachments
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Names
- Latin
- Compartimentum mediale muscle
- English
- Medial compartment of thigh
- French
- Compartiment médial de la cuisse
- Spanish
- Compartimento medial del muslo
- Portuguese
- Compartimento medial da coxa