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6. Tensor
Origin: A line about 1f inches long just below the anterior
extremity of the crest of the ilium.
Insertion a: ©=Fascia lata
Structure: The muscle lies between two layers of the faseie and
the longitudinal mescle fibers are inserted into these two layers.
Action: Tensor of the fascia lata
innervation: Superior gluteal
aa _luteus nite
Origin: Superior curved iliac line and crest, sacrum, and evccyx.
Insertion: Fescia,and femur below the great trochanter.
Structure: Muscular fibers arising directly from pelvis and
meking en oblique junction with tendon of insertion, which
‘{e a flat sheet extending up from the femur and along the
_ posterior edge of the muscles |
Action? Extends, abducts, ond rotates the thich outwarde

Innervation’ Inferior giutes] and sacral plexus.

 

2. Biceps (femoris) |

* | Grigin: 1. ischial tuberosity Ze Linea aspera

Insertion: tuberosity of the radius, and deep fascia of i ceows

Structure: Tendon of origin is long and flet «--forms septum between
the biceps and the semitendinous; the lower tendon extends
halfqway up the thigh; the mscle fibers sre short and pass
obliquely downward from the upper tendon and the femar to

ett join the lower tendons
Agtion: Flexes and rotates the leg outward.

Innervation: Great sciatic and oxternal poplitesl.