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Adductor Longus
Abstract
Adductor longus may be doubled, it may be split in two and it may be bilaminar. It may receive a slip from pectineus over the profunda artery (Wood). It may send a small muscular fascicle over the femoral artery into the anterior wall of the Hunterian canal (adductor canal). The muscle may extend as far as the knee, with its tendon of insertion inseparable from that of adductor magnus. Syn.: m. adductor femoris longus, Second adducteur superficiel (Cruveilhier), m. adductor triceps, first or long head. References Henle, J.
Adductor longus may be doubled, it may be split in two and it may be bilaminar. It may receive a slip from pectineus over the profunda artery (Wood). It may send a small muscular fascicle over the femoral artery into the anterior wall of the Hunterian canal (adductor canal).
The muscle may extend as far as the knee, with its tendon of insertion inseparable from that of adductor magnus.
Syn.: m. adductor femoris longus, Second adducteur superficiel (Cruveilhier), m. adductor triceps, first or long head.
References Henle, J. (1871) Handbuch der Muskellehre des Menschen, in Handbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen. Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig.
Hepburn, D. The adductor muscles of the thumb and great toe. J. Anat. Physiol. 27:408-410.
Macalister, A. (1875) Additional observations on muscular anomalies in human anatomy (third series), with a catalogue of the principal muscular variations hitherto published. Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. Sci. 25:1-134.
Shepherd, F.J. (1880) Notes of abnormalities observed in the dissecting-room of McGill University, From October, 1875, to May, 1879. Annual Report. Montreal General Hospital. 1:71-93.
Anatomical classification
- Systems:
- Muscular system
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