Ascending branch of medial circumflex femoral artery
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The ascending branch is distributed to the adductor muscles of the thigh, the gracilis
muscle, and obturator externus muscle, and anastomoses with the obturator artery
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Gracilis muscle
The gracilis is the most superficial muscle on the medial side of the thigh. It is thin and flattened, broad above, narrow and tapering below.-Origin and insertion:...
muscle, and obturator externus muscle, and anastomoses with the obturator artery
Obturator artery
The obturator artery is a branch of the internal iliac artery that passes antero-inferiorly on the lateral wall of the pelvis, to the upper part of the obturator foramen, and, escaping from the pelvic cavity through the obturator canal, it divides into both an anterior and a posterior...
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