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comjDOsed of rather coarse carneous fibres. It arises 

 from a line on the lateral aspect of the pelvis, which 

 line constitutes the lower boundary of the ischiatic 

 fossa that contains the ohturator extermis muscle. The 

 extent occupied on this line by the adductor longus 

 is equal to the length of it between the obturator 

 foramen and a point rather posterior to the ischiatic 

 foramen, in the vertical line. Here it is met by the 

 adductor magnus, the anterior point of its origin. By 

 an oversight in Fig. 24, the relative positions of the 

 orio-ins of the semitendinosus and the two adductors are 

 in each case a little too far forward to agree with what 

 we find in the majority of specimens. This has been 

 corrected, however, in the figures illustrating these 

 muscles, and in the several descriptions. 



generally, however, they have been considei-ed as one muscle, and 

 Gadow records the following synonymy for them {loc. cit., p. 174) : — 



" 43. M. PUB.-ISCHIO-FEMORALIS. 



M. Septimus femoris. Steno. 



Le jpremier adducteur de la cuisse. Vicq d'Azyr, p. 278, No. 2 



(nicht le deuxi^me, wie Tiedemann angiebt). 

 Kurzer Lendenmuskel. Merrem, p. 158, No. 4. 

 Abductor secundtis femoris. Wiedemann, p. 97. 



,, „ „ Tiedemann, § 291 (= adductor magnus 



hominis). 

 Unterer ausserer + innerer Anzieher. Meckel, System, p. 358, No. 8 u. 9. 

 Anzieher. Meckel, Archiv, p. 264, No. 9. 



Abducteurs (pt.). Cuvier, p. 506 ; Gervais et Alix, p. 31 ; Alix, p. 435. 

 Adductor internus et externus. d' Alton, p. 33. 

 Adductor femoris longus et add. f em. magnus. Gurlt, p. 28. 

 Adductor magnus. Owen, Aj^teryx, p. 292. 



„ „ Selenka, p. 141, No. 80. 



De Man, p. 123, No. 7. 



,, ,, Watson, p. 106. 



Adductor magmis {et brevis). Quennerstedt, p. 20. 



,, ,, ,, Neander, p. 14. 



M. jndw-ischiofemoralis. Gadow, No. 18." 



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