adductor magnus

An adductor muscle that attaches to the pelvic bone and the femur. In humans, the adductor magnus is a large triangular muscle, situated on the medial side of the thigh. The portion which arises from the ischiopubic ramus (a small part of the inferior ramus of the pubis, and the inferior ramus of the ischium) is called the 'adductor magnesius portion', and the portion arising from the tuberosity of the ischium is called the 'hamstring portion'. The hamstring portion is not considered part of the hamstring group of muscles, but it is adjacent to it.[WP,generalized]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the adductor magnus is

An adductor muscle that attaches to the pelvic bone and the femur. In humans, the adductor magnus is a large triangular muscle, situated on the medial side of the thigh. The portion which arises from the ischiopubic ramus (a small part of the inferior ramus of the pubis, and the inferior ramus of the ischium) is called the 'adductor magnesius portion', and the portion arising from the tuberosity of the ischium is called the 'hamstring portion'. The hamstring portion is not considered part of the hamstring group of muscles, but it is adjacent to it.[WP,generalized]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the adductor magnus is

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

What the adductor magnus connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb stylopod, hip and musculature of hip.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: obturator nerve and sciatic nerve.

Also called

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

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000370, 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 and sciatic nerve.
• inserts into: femur.
• originates from: pubis.

Questions

Where is the adductor magnus?

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

What does the adductor magnus connect to?

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

Is the adductor magnus 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.