pectineus muscle in dogs

An adductor muscle that attaches to the pelvic bone and the femur. In humans, The pectineus muscle is a flat, quadrangular muscle, situated at the anterior part of the upper and medial aspect of the thigh. It can be classified in the medial compartment of thigh (when the function is emphasized) or the anterior compartment of thigh (when the nerve is emphasized). [WP,generalized]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pectineus muscle is

An adductor muscle that attaches to the pelvic bone and the femur. In humans, The pectineus muscle is a flat, quadrangular muscle, situated at the anterior part of the upper and medial aspect of the thigh. It can be classified in the medial compartment of thigh (when the function is emphasized) or the anterior compartment of thigh (when the nerve is emphasized). [WP,generalized]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the pectineus muscle is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the pectineus muscle connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb stylopod.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: femoral nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as M. pectineus, pectineus and musculus pectineus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001382, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb stylopod.
• A kind of: adductor muscle of hip and hindlimb stylopod muscle.
• Innervated by: femoral nerve.
• inserts into: femur.
• originates from: pubis.

Questions

Where is the pectineus muscle?

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the pectineus muscle connect to?

Part of: hindlimb stylopod.

Is the pectineus muscle the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.