Muscle Name: Pectineus
Medical Name:
- Pectineus
Other Names:
- None
Head:
- None (Single muscle)
Movement:
- Adduction of the hip
- Bringing the thigh towards the midline
- Flexion of the hip
- Lifting the thigh upwards
- Medial rotation of the hip
- Rotating the thigh inward
Attachment:
- Origin:
- Superior ramus of the pubis
- Insertion:
- Pectineal line of the femur, just inferior to the lesser trochanter
Related Muscles:
- Adductor Longus
- Adductor Brevis
- Adductor Magnus
- Iliopsoas
- Sartorius
- Rectus Femoris