Espiral Atlas
Anatomical regionLower limb

Adductor canal

canalis adductorius

A long, narrow intermuscular passage (about 15 cm), in the middle third of the thigh, deep to the sartorius. It runs from the apex of the femoral triangle, where the sartorius crosses over the adductor longus, to the adductor hiatus, in the tendon of the adductor magnus.

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