| Adductor brevis muscle | |
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| The adductor brevis and nearby muscles | |
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| Structures surrounding right hip-joint. (Adductor brevis at upper right.) | |
| Gray's | subject #128 473 |
| Origin | anterior surface of the inferior ramus and body of the pubis |
| Insertion | the lesser trochanter and linea aspera of the femur |
| Artery | Obturator artery |
| Nerve | obturator nerve |
| Actions | adduction of hip |
The adductor brevis is a muscle in the thigh situated immediately behind the pectineus and adductor longus.
It is somewhat triangular in form, and arises by a narrow origin from the outer surfaces of the superior and inferior rami of the pubis, between the gracilis and obturator externus.
Its fibers, passing backward, lateralward, and downward, are inserted, by an aponeurosis, into the line leading from the lesser trochanter to the linea aspera and into the upper part of the linea aspera, immediately behind the pectineus and upper part of the adductor longus.
Additional images
 Deep muscles of the medial femoral region. |
 The lumbar plexus and its branches. |
External links
- LUC adbr
- -952827827 at GPnotebook
- Cross section at UV pembody/body18b
- Cross section at UV pelvis/pelvis-e12-15
- PTCentral
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.
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