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gracilis muscle

(grăs'ə-lĭs)
n.

A muscle with origin in the ramus of the pubis, with insertion to the shaft of the tibia, with nerve supply from the obturator nerve, and whose action adducts the thigh, flexes the knee, and rotates the leg medially.

 
 
Veterinary Dictionary: gracilis muscle

A muscle which occupies the medial surface of the thigh; arises from the pelvic symphysis and inserts on the tibial crest.

  • g. muscle rupture — a common injury in racing Greyhounds, causing lameness, inability to extend the stifle, and an obvious swelling in the medial thigh. Called also dropped muscle.
 
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Gracilis muscle
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The gracilis and nearby muscles
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Gracilis labeled at center right.
Latin musculus gracilis
Gray's subject #128 471
Origin: ischiopubic ramus
Insertion: tibia (pes anserinus)
Artery: obturator artery
Nerve: anterior branch of obturator nerve
Action: flexes hip, knee
Dorlands/Elsevier m_22/12549236

The Gracilis (Latin: slender) is the most superficial muscle on the medial side of the thigh. It is thin and flattened, broad above, narrow and tapering below. It arises by a thin aponeurosis from the anterior margins of the lower half of the symphysis pubis and the upper half of the pubic arch.

The muscle's fibers run vertically downward, ending in a rounded tendon. This tendon passes behind the medial condyle of the femur, curves around the medial condyle of the tibia where it becomes flattened, and inserts into the upper part of the medial surface of the body of the tibia, below the condyle. At its insertion the tendon is situated immediately above that of the semitendinosus muscle, and its upper edge is overlapped by the tendon of the sartorius muscle, which it joins to form the pes anserinus. The pes anserinus is separated from the medial collateral ligament of the knee-joint by a bursa.

A few of the fibers of the lower part of the tendon are prolonged into the deep fascia of the leg.

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