Adductor

The movement of body structures is accomplished by the contraction of muscles. Muscles may move parts of the skeleton relatively to each other, or may move parts of internal organs relatively to each other. All such movements are classified by the directions in which the affected structures are moved...

The adductor longus muscle is a muscle of the human body. It is a part of the adductor group of the thigh, that as the name suggests adducts the thigh....

The adductor magnus is a large triangular muscle, situated on the medial side of the thigh.The portion which arises from the ischiopubic ramus is called the "adductor magnesius portion", and the portion arising from the tuberosity of the ischium is called the "hamstring portion"...

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,...

The adductor canal is an aponeurotic tunnel in the middle third of the thigh, extending from the apex of the femoral triangle to the opening in the Adductor magnus, the Adductor hiatus.-Boundary:...