Pubovaginal muscle

{{Short description|Pelvic floor muscle}}

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| Name = Pubovaginal muscle

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| Origin = Pubis

| Insertion = Midsection of the lateral vaginal wall

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| Action = Supports the lateral vaginal wall in pelvic cavity

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The pubovaginal muscle is a pelvic floor muscle that attaches to the muscles of lateral walls of the midsection of the vagina and the pubis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pelviperineology.org/multidisciplinary/tables/pubovaginalis_muscle_fig.html|title=Pubovaginalis muscle|website=www.pelviperineology.org|access-date=2018-02-07}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pubovaginal-muscle|title=the definition of pubovaginal muscle|website=Dictionary.com|access-date=2018-02-07}}{{Cite news|url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/pubovaginal+muscle|title=pubovaginal muscle|work=TheFreeDictionary.com|access-date=2018-02-07}}{{Cite news|url=https://medicine.academic.ru/142017/pubovaginal_muscle|title=pubovaginal muscle|work=Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias|access-date=2018-02-07|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6iXpv6U-gkC&dq=pubovaginal+muscle&pg=PA91|title=Imaging Pelvic Floor Disorders|last1=Stoker|first1=Jaap|last2=Taylor|first2=Stuart A.|last3=Delancey|first3=John O. L.|date=2010-03-28|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9783540719687|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9KuCMWWG8BcC&dq=pubovaginal+muscle&pg=PA122|title=Key Topics in Critical Care, Second Edition|last1=Craft|first1=T. M.|last2=Parr|first2=M. J. A.|last3=Nolan|first3=Jerry P.|date=2004-11-10|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781841843582|language=en}} It is relatively short compared to the other levator ani muscles and extends between the pubic bones and the vagina.{{Cite journal|last1=Ashton-Miller|first1=James A.|last2=DeLANCEY|first2=John O. L.|date=2007-04-01|title=Functional Anatomy of the Female Pelvic Floor|journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=1101|issue=1|pages=266–296|doi=10.1196/annals.1389.034|pmid=17416924|bibcode=2007NYASA1101..266A|issn=1749-6632|hdl=2027.42/72597|s2cid=6310287|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72597/1/annals.1389.034.pdf|hdl-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=http://anat.lf1.cuni.cz/souhrny/aka05.pdf|title=Clinical topographic anatomy|last=Grim|first=Miloš|date=2017|publisher=Institute of Anatomy, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University}}{{Cite journal|last1=Nyangoh Timoh|first1=Krystel|last2=Moszkowicz|first2=David|last3=Zaitouna|first3=Mazen|last4=Lebacle|first4=Cedric|last5=Martinovic|first5=Jelena|last6=Diallo|first6=Djibril|last7=Creze|first7=Maud|last8=Lavoue|first8=Vincent|last9=Darai|first9=Emile|title=Detailed muscular structure and neural control anatomy of the levator ani muscle: a study based on female human fetuses|journal=American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology|volume=218|issue=1|pages=121.e1–121.e12|doi=10.1016/j.ajog.2017.09.021|pmid=28988909|year=2018|s2cid=29761046}} Other muscles that are part of the levator ani are: the pubococcygeus muscle which is made up of the puboperineal, pubovaginal, and puboanal muscles; the puborectal muscle; and the iliococcygeal muscle.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7N0BgAAQBAJ&dq=Pubovaginal+muscle+-sling&pg=PA16|title=Biomechanics of the Female Pelvic Floor|last1=Hoyte|first1=Lennox|last2=Damaser|first2=Margot|date=2016-03-01|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=9780128032299|language=en}} The pubovaginal muscle was identified by anatomists as early as 1912.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=juQ0AQAAMAAJ&dq=pubovaginal+muscle&pg=RA1-PA213|title=Progressive Medicine|date=1912|language=en}}