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Medial compartment of thigh
Cross-section through the middle of the thigh. (Medial compartment is at center right.)
Anterior hip muscles
Details
Artery	Obturator artery
Nerve	Obturator nerve (femoral nerve for pectineus muscle)
Identifiers
Latin	compartimentum femoris mediale
TA98	A04.7.01.004
TA2	2626
FMA	45160
Anatomical terminology[edit on Wikidata]

The medial compartment of thigh is one of the fascial compartments of the thigh and contains the hip adductor muscles and the gracilis muscle.

The obturator nerve is the primary nerve supplying this compartment. The obturator artery is the blood supply to the medial thigh.

The muscles in the compartment are:

• gracilis
• adductor longus
• adductor brevis
• adductor magnus

The obturator externus muscle is sometimes considered part of this group, and sometimes excluded. (Spatially, it is in this location, but functionally, it is more similar to the other lateral rotator group muscles).

The pectineus is sometimes included in this group, and sometimes excluded. It has the same function as the others in this group, but different innervation – namely, the femoral nerve.

References

1. ^ Ellis, Harold; Susan Standring; Gray, Henry David (2005). Gray's anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 0-443-07168-3.
2. ^ Sauerland, Eberhardt K.; Patrick W. Tank; Tank, Patrick W. (2005). Grant's dissector. Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 129. ISBN 0-7817-5484-4.
3. ^ Kyung Won Chung (2005). Gross Anatomy (Board Review). Hagerstown, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. pp. 123. ISBN 0-7817-5309-0.
4. ^ "Summary of Lower Limb". Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2008-01-27.

External links

• medialthigh at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)

• Medial compartment of thigh
• Animal anatomy