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Preferred Name

Adductor Longus Muscle

Synonyms

Adductor Longus Muscle

ADDUCTOR LONGUS MUSCLE

Definitions

A muscle located in the medial compartment of the thigh that adducts and medially rotates the thigh. It originates on the external surface of the pubis body and inserts into the middle third of the linea aspera. It is innervated by the obturator nerve and branches of the sciatica nerve and supplied by the obturator and medial circumflex femoral arteries.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C163509

ALT_DEFINITION

A muscle in the thigh, in general extending from the external surface of the body of pubis to the middle third of the linea aspera; primary function is to adduct and medially rotate the thigh.

code

C163509

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C77526

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C74456

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

A muscle located in the medial compartment of the thigh that adducts and medially rotates the thigh. It originates on the external surface of the pubis body and inserts into the middle third of the linea aspera. It is innervated by the obturator nerve and branches of the sciatica nerve and supplied by the obturator and medial circumflex femoral arteries.

FULL_SYN

Adductor Longus Muscle

ADDUCTOR LONGUS MUSCLE

label

Adductor Longus Muscle

Preferred_Name

Adductor Longus Muscle

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C163509

Semantic_Type

Body Part, Organ, or Organ Component

UMLS_CUI

C0584891

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C13056

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