Nerve Supply to the Pelvic Limb

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The obturator nerve is another nerve that we did not dissect. As I have told you, the obturator nerves course through the pelvic cavity to exit through the obturator foramina of the pelvis. The nerves then innervates the medial thigh muscles, which include the gracilis muscle (A), the adductor muscle (B) and the pectineus muscle (C).

The gracilis, adductor and pectineus muscles, as a whole, act to adduct the limb. Both the adductor and gracilic muscles may extend the hip, and because of the extensive attachment of the gracilis muscle, it may also flex the stifle and extend the hock.