thigh

Introduction

That part of the leg between the pelvis & buttocks & the knee.

3 fascial compartment divide the thigh, anterior, posterior, medial.

Clinical significance

• thigh weakness is associated with Gower's sign

More general terms

• lower extremity structure

Component of

• upper leg

Components

• nerve to rectus femoris
• nerve to vastus muscles
• nerve to sartorius
• nerve to pectineus
• nerve to iliopsoas
• adductor muscle
• cribriform fascia (Hasselbach fascia)
• falciform margin
• saphenous opening (hiatus saphenous, fossa ovalis)