The medial compartment of thigh is one of the fascial compartments of the thigh and contains the hip adductor muscles and the gracilis muscle.
| 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 |
| TA98 | A04.7.01.004 |
| TA2 | 2626 |
| FMA | 45160 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
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:
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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Sauerland, Eberhardt K.; Patrick W. Tank; Tank, Patrick W. (2005). Grant's dissector. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 129. ISBN 0-7817-5484-4.
- ^ a b Kyung Won Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 123. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.
- ^ a b "Summary of Lower Limb". Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2008-01-27.
External links
edit- medialthigh at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)