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
Latin	compartimentum femoris mediale
Gray's	subject #128 471
Artery	obturator artery
Nerve	obturator nerve (femoral nerve for Pectineus muscle)

The medial fascial compartment of thigh contains the hip adductors.

The obturator nerve is the primary nerve supplying this compartment.

The muscles in the compartment are:

• gracilis
• adductors
  • adductor longus
  • adductor brevis
  • adductor magnus

The obturator externus muscle is sometimes considered part of this group,^[1][2][3] and sometimes excluded.^[4] (Spatially, it is it 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.)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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. ^ ^{a b} Sauerland, Eberhardt K.; Patrick W., PhD. Tank; Tank, Patrick W. (2005). Grant's dissector. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 129. ISBN 0-7817-5484-4. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Kyung Won, PhD. Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 123. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Summary of Lower Limb". http://mywebpages.comcast.net/WNOR/summarylistll.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-27. 

External links

• medialthigh at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
• Anatomy at Dartmouth knee/muscles/thigh2