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gracilis Anat.|ˈgræsɪlɪs|
[L., = slender.]
Also musculus (adductor) gracilis: a superficial muscle on the medial side of the thigh, passing from the hip-bone to the tibia, and acting as an adductor of the hips and a flexor and medial rotator of the leg.
1615H. Crooke Descr. Body Man xxxvii. 804 The second muscle of the Legge which is also called Gracilis or the slender muscle. 1685S. Collins Syst. Anat. I. xviii. 111 The Gracilis..is inserted with a round Tendon into the inside of the Os Tibiæ. 1727Chambers Cycl. I. 176/1 Gracilis, in anatomy, a muscle of the leg, thus called from its slender shape. 1858H. Gray Anat. 281 The Gracilis is the most superficial muscle on the inner side of the thigh. 1964Cunningham's Textbk. Anat. (ed. 10) 353/1 The gracilis arises by a tendon, short, thin, and wide, from the lower half of the edge of the pubic symphysis. |