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...pommels of a sidesaddle. These muscles, as everyone should know, are the pectineus (comblike) and the adductores magnus, longus and brevis (the great, long and short pullers-in) and connect the femur (the thigh bone, the longest in the body) to the front lower ridges of the sacrum. They adduct the thighs powerfully and are especially used in horse exercise, the saddle being grasped between the knees by their contraction. (The gracilis, the most superficial muscle of the inner aspect of the thigh, is relatively weak.) Nerves concerned are the anterior femoral cutaneous, the lumboinguinal and the ilioinguinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Horse Riding | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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