adductor brevis

The adductor brevis is a muscle in the thigh situated immediately behind the pectineus and adductor longus. It is somewhat triangular in form, and arises by a narrow origin from the outer surfaces of the superior and inferior rami of the pubis, between the gracilis and obturator externus. Its fibers, passing backward, lateralward, and downward, are inserted, by an aponeurosis, into the line leading from the lesser trochanter to the linea aspera and into the upper part of the linea aspera, immediately behind the pectineus and upper part of the adductor longus.[WP]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the adductor brevis is

The adductor brevis is a muscle in the thigh situated immediately behind the pectineus and adductor longus. It is somewhat triangular in form, and arises by a narrow origin from the outer surfaces of the superior and inferior rami of the pubis, between the gracilis and obturator externus. Its fibers, passing backward, lateralward, and downward, are inserted, by an aponeurosis, into the line leading from the lesser trochanter to the linea aspera and into the upper part of the linea aspera, immediately behind the pectineus and upper part of the adductor longus.[WP]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the adductor brevis is

It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the adductor brevis connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb stylopod, hip and musculature of hip.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: obturator nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as adductor brevis muscle and musculus adductos brevis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000368, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb stylopod, hip and musculature of hip.
• A kind of: adductor muscle, hindlimb stylopod muscle and pelvic complex muscle.
• Innervated by: obturator nerve.
• inserts into: lesser trochanter.
• originates from: pubis.

Questions

Where is the adductor brevis?

It sits in the lower limb, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the adductor brevis connect to?

Part of: hindlimb stylopod, hip and musculature of hip.

Is the adductor brevis the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.