Adductor magnus

Adductor magnus muscle
The adductor magnus and nearby muscles
Structures surrounding right hip-joint (adductor magnus at upper right)
Details
Origin	Pubis, tuberosity of the ischium
Insertion	Linea aspera and adductor tubercle of femur
Artery	Deep femoral artery
Nerve	Posterior branch of obturator nerve (adductor) and tibial nerve (hamstring)
Actions	Adduction of hip (both portions) flexion of hip (adductor portion) extension of hip (hamstring portion)
Identifiers
Latin	Musculus adductor magnus
TA	A04.7.02.028
FMA	22443
Anatomical terms of muscle []

The adductor magnus is a large triangular muscle, situated on the medial side of the thigh.

It consists of two parts. The portion which arises from the ischiopubic ramus (a small part of the inferior ramus of the pubis, and the inferior ramus of the ischium) is called the pubofemoral portion, adductor portion, or adductor minimus, and the portion arising from the tuberosity of the ischium is called the ischiocondylar portion, extensor portion, or "hamstring portion". Due to its common embryonic origin, innervation, and action the ischiocondylar portion (or hamstring portion) is often considered part of the hamstring group of muscles. The ischiocondylar portion of the adductor magnus is considered a muscle of the posterior compartment of the thigh while the pubofemoral portion of the adductor magnus is considered a muscle of the medial compartment.

Those fibers which arise from the ramus of the pubis are short, horizontal in direction, and are inserted into the rough line of the femur leading from the greater trochanter to the linea aspera, medial to the gluteus maximus.

Those fibers from the ramus of the ischium are directed downward and laterally with different degrees of obliquity, to be inserted, by means of a broad aponeurosis, into the linea aspera and the upper part of its medial prolongation below.

The medial portion of the muscle, composed principally of the fibers arising from the tuberosity of the ischium, forms a thick fleshy mass consisting of coarse bundles which descend almost vertically, and end about the lower third of the thigh in a rounded tendon which is inserted into the adductor tubercle on the medial condyle of the femur, and is connected by a fibrous expansion to the line leading upward from the tubercle to the linea aspera.