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| what nerve is responsible for knee extension? |
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| what nerve is responsible for lateral rotation at the hip joint? |
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| what muscle is the chief flexor of the thigh? |
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| what 2 nerves innervate the adductor magnus? |
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| what is the longest muscle in the body? |
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| what is the medial compartment also called? |
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| the adductor compartment. |
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| what are the 2 divisions of the sciatic nerve? |
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Definition
| tibial nerve, common peroneal nerve. THC. no H involved |
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| what nerve innervates the muscles of the medial compartment responsible for adduction? |
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| what is the one exception of adductors of the muscle innervated by the obturator nerve? |
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| what are 2 branches off the external iliac artery before it becomes the femoral artery? |
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| deep circumflex iliac and inferior epigastric |
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| what landmark differentiates the external iliac artery from the femoral artery? |
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| through what landmark does the femoral artery pass as it travels to the leg? |
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| adductor hiatus in the adductor magnus muscle. |
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| what passes through adductor canal? |
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Definition
femoral artery and vein
saphenous nerve |
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| what arteries off the popliteal anastomose and supply the knee? |
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| medial and lateral superior and inferior genicular arteries. |
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| what vein is a frequent site of blood clots that travel into the pulmonary circulation and is also a source of replacement vessels in coronary bypass surgery? |
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| what forms the femoral triangle (femoral artery vein and nerve pass through here)? |
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| sartorius, inguinal ligament, adductor LONGUS muscle |
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| what structures are found under and just inferior to the inguinal ligament? (NAVEL) |
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femoral Nerve
femoral Artery
femoral Vein
Lymphatics |
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| what is found in the femoral sheath? |
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| femoral artery and vein (not nerve) |
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| which muscle is referred to as the tailor's muscle,because it flexes and laterally rotates the thigh as well as flexes and medially rotated the leg? |
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| what is a sesamoid bone? Largest sesamoid bone? |
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a bone which lies in a tendon and slides over another bone
-patella |
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| what nerve is responsible for cutaneous sensation in the medial aspect of the leg? |
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Definition
| posterior femoral cutaneous nerve |
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| which main nerve gives off nerve branches responsible for the cutaneous innervation of lateral aspect of the leg? |
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| cutaneous sensation to posterior leg? |
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