Multiple choice

The muscles originating in the superior ramus of the pubis is

  1. obturator externus

  2. adductor brevis

  3. adductor longus

  4. adductor magnus
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Explanation

It is the smallest and shortest of the three adductor muscles originating in the superior ramus of the pubis. It is a triangular muscle in the thigh. It acts to adduct and rotates the thigh laterally and to flex the leg.

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