BIOL3186 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Adductor Magnus Muscle, Adductor Hiatus, Adductor Longus Muscle
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Get labelled diagram off wattle - trying just note taking. Only femur and tibia participates in the joint (unlike elbow) Synovial hinge joint (mortified hinge joint - small amount of rotation when flexed) Flexion - anterior surfaces come together (not like other areas of body. Adductor magnus - it"s a adductor and its big. Allows for femoral artery and vein to pass. Adductor brevis - sits on top of adductor magnus. Three more lie superficial to these muscles, in a sort of strip-like way. Whole group of muscles supplied by obturator nerve. Quadriceps tendon - as it comes down to tibia. Has the patella embedded in this tendon - improves how the muscle acts at knee joint. Patella ligament - from patella to tibia (also called a ligament) Other three muscles also insert into this rectus femoris. Vatus lateralis - under and lateral to rectus femoris. All vastus and rectus femoris cause extension of the knee.
