THE MUSCLES OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY. 183 



extremity of the shaft of the tibia, becomes finally 

 thereupon inserted on its internal surface. The hinder 

 margin of the semimembranosus is free, while its border 



o 



anteriorly is juxtaposed to the posterior edge of the 

 adductors. 



103. The fomoro-caudal 1 is another one of that 

 group of five or six muscles made historical through the 



1 Gadow has carefully gotten together quite a complete synonymy 

 of this muscle for us, which shows, in the most interesting way 

 possible, the various christenings it has been at various times sub- 

 jected to. I reproduce this synonymy here, it being from the work 

 so frequently quoted throughout the present treatise : 



" 36. M. CAUD-ILIO-FEMORALIS. 



M. sextus femoris. Steno. 



Le deuxieme abducteur de la cuisse ; M. cruro-coccygien. Vicq 



d'Azyr, p. 278, No. 3. 



Schwanzhiiftmuskel. Merrem, p. 158, No. 2. 

 J/. cruro-coccygeus + Adductor jjrimiis femoris. Wiedemann, p. 96 



u. 98. 

 Adductor 2)riius femoris + Cruro-coccygeus. Tiedemann, 225 u. 



290. 



Birnmuskel. Meckel, System, pp. 355-357, No. 5. 

 Birnenformiger Muskel. Meckel, ArcJiiv, p. 263, No. 8. 

 Lefemoro-caudien du cruro-coccygien. Cuvier, p. 288, No. 8. 

 Gemellus superior + inferior. Gurlt, p. 20 u. 27. 

 Adductor longus femoris. Osven, Apteryx, p. 291. 

 Abaisseur superieur de la cuisse. Milne- Edwards. 

 Triceps adductor femoris (third head). Reid, p. 143. 

 Femoro-caudalis + Caput pelvinum m.femoro-caudalis. Sundevall. 

 Adductor longus. Selenka, p. 141, No. 81. 



De Man, p. 123, No. 8. 



Femoro-caudal + Accessor y-femoro-caudal. Garrod. 

 Femoro-coccygien. Gervais et Alix, p. 32. 



,, ,, Alix, p. 433. 



M. caudi-isckio-iliofemoralis. Gaclow, No. 24. 

 Adductor longus femoris + Cruro-coccygeus. Watson, p. 105. 

 Hieiv.u Koinmen noch die kleinen Hiilfsmuskeln, in der Literatur 



meisteus ohne Namen. 



