Muscle Name: Gracilis

Medical Name:

• Gracilis

Other Names:

• None

Head:

• None (Single muscle)

Movement:

• Adduction of the hip
  • Bringing the thigh towards the midline
• Flexion of the knee
  • Bending the leg
• Medial rotation of the knee (when the knee is flexed)
  • Rotating the lower leg inward

Attachment:

• Origin:
  • Body and inferior ramus of the pubis
• Insertion:
  • Medial surface of the proximal tibia (part of the pes anserinus)

Related Muscles:

• Adductor Longus
• Adductor Brevis
• Adductor Magnus
• Pectineus
• Sartorius
• Semitendinosus

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