Adductor
Musculus adductor
Adducts the limb and extends the hip.
About the adductor of the pig
Adductor is a muscle of the tail (tail), one on each side of the body. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Musculus adductor. You can turn it above, see it in place in the tail of the pig, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Where it runs from and to
A muscle is told apart from its neighbours by what it takes hold of at each end, which is also what decides what it does when it shortens.
- Origin
- Ventral surface of the pubis and the ischium.
- Insertion
- Caudal and medial surface of the shaft of the femur.
- Action
- Adducts the limb and extends the hip.
- Nerve
- Obturator nerve.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the pig; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Adductor
- Latin (NAV)
- Musculus adductor
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the adductor
- What is the Latin name of the adductor?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the adductor is called Musculus adductor.
- Where is the adductor of the pig?
- Adductor is a muscle of the tail (tail), one on each side of the body.
- Where does the adductor originate and insert?
- Origin: Ventral surface of the pubis and the ischium. Insertion: Caudal and medial surface of the shaft of the femur.
- What nerve supplies the adductor?
- Obturator nerve.
- What does the adductor do?
- Adducts the limb and extends the hip.
See the adductor inside the whole pig.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the pig around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
