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cated tendon; the inferior is both tendinous and fleshy. Its 
fleshy belly is striped with aponeurosis. 
Action. —To flex the haunch, and at the same time adduct it. 
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ADDUCTORES FEMORIS. 
Different anatomists pursue different modes of treating- of 
these muscles; and all may be proved to be right or wrong, 
according to the light in which the dissector views the parts, 
and the artificial divisions which his knife may make of them. 
One considers the three adductors together, as a triceps muscle; 
another describes them as three separate muscles; while a third 
looks upon them as forming a single muscle and a biceps . The 
last mode of proceeding appears to me to be in the most 
strict accordance with nature; however, in respect to the more 
prevalent usage, I shall point them out as three muscles. 
ADDUCTOR BREVIS. 
ADDUCTOR LONGUS. 
> Sub-pubio-femoralis . 
Situation . —Deep-seated, on the inner part of the thigh. 
Attachment. —Superiorly, (both having one common attach¬ 
ment) to that part of the pubes included between the symphysis 
and the acetabulum; inferiorly, the short adductor is attached 
to the middle third of the body *of the femoral bone; the long 
adductor to the lower third of the body of the same bone, and to 
its internal condyle. 
Relations. —On the outer side with the gracilis; and on the 
inner, with the trochanter minor internus. Along their anterior 
borders run the pectineus and sartorius. Posteriorly, lies the 
adductor magnus. Between these two adductors pass the femo¬ 
ral artery and vein. 
Structure. —One entire fleshy mass superiorly, split into two 
portions inferiorly, which at their insertions into the bone mani¬ 
fest tendinous fibres. Their surfaces exhibit aponeurotic patches 
and stripes. 
Action. —Will be considered with the next muscle. 
adductor magnus. — Ischio-tibialis. 
Situation. —Postero-internal part of the haunch and thigh; 
forming the prominence behind, termed “ the point of the 
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Figure. —Irregular. Superior extremity, narrow, pointed, 
and curved, from which it becomes broad, thick, and afterwards 
elongated. The posterior border is thick ; the anterior is thin. 
Attachment. —Superiorly, to the spine of the sacrum and 
tuberosity of the ischium; inferiorly, to the lower third of the 
