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  2. Vastus muscles - Wikipedia

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    The vastus lateralis is the largest and most powerful of the three vasti muscles. It arises from the several areas of the femur, including the upper part of the intertrochanteric line; the lower, anterior borders of the greater trochanter, to the outer border of the gluteal tuberosity, and the upper half of the outer border of the linea aspera.

  3. Vastus medialis - Wikipedia

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    The vastus medialis is a muscle present in the anterior compartment of thigh, and is one of the four muscles that make up the quadriceps muscle. The others are the vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius and rectus femoris. [1] It is the most medial of the "vastus" group of muscles. The vastus medialis arises medially along the entire length of ...

  4. Quadriceps - Wikipedia

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    The vastus medialis muscle is on the medial side of the femur (i.e. on the inner part thigh). [1] The vastus intermedius muscle lies between vastus lateralis and vastus medialis on the front of the femur (i.e. on the top or front of the thigh), but deep to the rectus femoris muscle. Typically, it cannot be seen without dissection of the rectus ...

  5. List of skeletal muscles of the human body - Wikipedia

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    The muscle which can 'cancel' or to some degree reverse the action of the muscle. Muscle synergies are noted in parentheses when relevant. O (Occurrences) Number of times that the named muscle row occurs in a standard human body. Here it may also be denoted when a given muscles only occurs in a male or a female body.

  6. Anterior compartment of thigh - Wikipedia

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    The anterior compartment is one of the fascial compartments of the thigh that contains groups of muscles together with their nerves and blood supply. The anterior compartment contains the sartorius muscle (the longest muscle in the body) and the quadriceps femoris group, which consists of the rectus femoris muscle and the three vasti muscles – the vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, and ...

  7. Posterior compartment of thigh - Wikipedia

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    The muscles of the posterior compartment of the thigh are the: [2] [3] biceps femoris muscle, which consists of a short head and a long head. semitendinosus muscle; semimembranosus muscle; These muscles (or their tendons) apart from the short head of the biceps femoris, are commonly known as the hamstrings.

  8. Fascial compartments of thigh - Wikipedia

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    Green is the medial compartment (gracilis and adductor magnus), blue is the posterior (semimembrosus to biceps c. brevis) and red is the anterior (vastus lateralis to sartorius). The fascial compartments of thigh are the three fascial compartments that divide and contain the thigh muscles.

  9. Femoral nerve - Wikipedia

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    Anterior division supplies the sartorius muscle [1] Posterior division supplies the rectus femoris muscle, the three vastus muscles – (vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, and vastus intermedius), and the articularis genus muscle. The articularis genus is supplied by a branch of the nerve to vastus intermedius. [1]