Adductor

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An adductor (“ leading ”) (from Latin : adducere “leading”, “ pulling ”) is a muscle used to pull ( adduction ) a limb. Adductors belong to the group of skeletal muscles . Your antagonists ("opponents") are the abductors .

The muscles of the adductor compartment of the thigh , for example, pull the splayed leg back into the starting position. The muscles of the thigh are innervated by the obturator nerve from the lumbar plexus . The thigh adductors can be subdivided into a superficial group with musculus pectineus , musculus gracilis and musculus adductor longus , in the middle musculus adductor brevis and in the deep group with musculus adductor magnus and musculus adductor minimus .

The adduction of the thumb is performed by the adductor pollicis muscle , that of the big toe by the adductor hallucis muscle .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Buchta: Das Physikum: Compendium for the 1st section of the medical examination . Elsevier, Urban & FischerVerlag, 2010, ISBN 9783437430510 , p. 77.
  2. ↑ Walther Graumann: Compact textbook anatomy . Volume 2. Schattauer Verlag 2004, ISBN 9783794519446 , p. 367.
  3. ↑ Walther Graumann: Compact textbook anatomy . Volume 2. Schattauer Verlag 2004, ISBN 9783794519446 , p. 225.