medial compartment of thigh

{{short description|One of the fascial compartments of the thigh}}

{{Infobox anatomy

| Name = Medial compartment of thigh

| Latin = compartimentum femoris mediale

| Image = Gray432 color.png

| Caption = Cross-section through the middle of the thigh. (Medial compartment is at center right.)

| Image2 = Anterior Hip Muscles 2.PNG

| Caption2 = Anterior hip muscles

| Precursor =

| System =

| Artery = Obturator artery

| Vein =

| Nerve = Obturator nerve (femoral nerve for pectineus muscle)

| Lymph =

}}

The medial compartment of thigh is one of the fascial compartments of the thigh and contains the hip adductor muscles and the gracilis muscle.

The obturator nerve is the primary nerve supplying this compartment. The obturator artery is the blood supply to the medial thigh.

The muscles in the compartment are:

• gracilis
• adductor longus
• adductor brevis
• adductor magnus

The obturator externus muscle is sometimes considered part of this group,{{cite book |author1=Ellis, Harold |author2=Susan Standring |author3=Gray, Henry David |title=Gray's anatomy: the anatomical basis of clinical practice |publisher=Elsevier Churchill Livingstone |location=St. Louis, Mo |year=2005 |isbn=0-443-07168-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/graysanatomyanat0000unse }}{{cite book |author1=Sauerland, Eberhardt K. |author2=Patrick W. Tank |author3=Tank, Patrick W. |title=Grant's dissector |url=https://archive.org/details/grantsdissector00tank_714 |url-access=limited |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |location=Hagerstown, MD |year=2005 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/grantsdissector00tank_714/page/n142 129] |isbn=0-7817-5484-4 }}{{cite book |author=Kyung Won Chung |title=Gross Anatomy (Board Review) |url=https://archive.org/details/brsgrossanatomy00chun |url-access=limited |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |location=Hagerstown, MD |year=2005 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/brsgrossanatomy00chun/page/n136 123] |isbn=0-7817-5309-0 }} and sometimes excluded.{{cite web|url=http://mywebpages.comcast.net/WNOR/summarylistll.htm |title=Summary of Lower Limb |access-date=2008-01-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123061508/http://mywebpages.comcast.net/WNOR/summarylistll.htm |archive-date=2008-01-23 }} (Spatially, it is in this location, but functionally, it is more similar to the other lateral rotator group muscles).

The pectineus is sometimes included in this group, and sometimes excluded. It has the same function as the others in this group, but different innervation – namely, the femoral nerve.