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brevis is a muscle found on the inner thigh. It is one of three
muscles in the adductor group, which also includes the adductor
magnus and the adductor longus. Collectively, these muscles are
responsible for hip adduction, which is the lateral pulling of
the leg inward toward the midline of the body. With fibers
running obliquely from the pubic bone down toward the midline of
the thigh, the adductor brevis is the smallest muscle in the
adductor group. It is found beneath the slightly larger adductor
longus, whose fibers run parallel to those of the brevis, and
the pectineus muscle, which is found just superior to the
adductor muscles and whose fibers also run parallel. The
adductor brevis is long and narrow, like a band, but is narrower
at the upper portion and wider toward the bottom. Originating on
the superior and inferior rami of the pubis bone, which form the
two sides of the L-shaped pubis, the brevis inserts along the
linea aspera of the