Across
- 5. Its the most anterior dductor of the hip. Its a flat quadrangular muscle situated on the upper and medial aspect of the thigh
- 8. A bulk of muscle located in the superior anterior middle compartment in the thigh
- 11. A fusiform muscle enclosed between two layers of fascia lata.
- 12. One of the three muscles that make up the hamstrings muscle group. Its name is due to it having a long tendon of insertion.
- 14. Its a broad triangular muscle.Its the largest muscle in the medial compartment of the thigh. It lies deep to the adductor brevis and longus.
- 15. It innervated by both the anterior of muscles and posterior branches of the obturature nerve. Hip adduction and hip flexion.
Down
- 1. Nerve supply for the skin covering the muscle is L2. Hip Extension and knee extension.
- 2. It forms the major bulk at the back of lower leg and is a very powerful muscle. Its a two joint muscle and has two heads.
- 3. The most superficial and medial of the muscles. Located next to the addutor musculature and crosses at the hip and knee joints. Its able to provide more function for neighboring muscles
- 4. A large compound muscle of the inner hip composed of the iliacus and psoas major muscle.
- 6. Its the muscle of the leg. Its deepest muscle of the knee joint which forms the floor of the popliteus fossa.
- 7. A long superficial muscle. It runs down the length of the thigh and runs over two joints(hip and knee) and is the longest muscle in the human body.
- 9. Its part of the hamstrings and a muscle in the posterior compartment of the thigh. It arises proximally by two heads.
- 10. Its the largest and heaviest muscle in the human body.Its the most superficial of all gluteal muscle. Its the largest muscle at the hip and its size allows it to generate a large amount of force.
- 13. This large fan-shaped muscle is situated most anteriorly of this group and covers the middle part of the magnus and the anterior or part of brevis.