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  • The vastus medialis obliquus (VMO), a teardroplike muscle on the inside of your thigh, works together with the flashier VL (vastus lateralis muscle) on the outside to hold the patella in place as the joint bends, so I take advantage of the thigh adduction and abduction machines, and my physical therapist showed me how to set the hip machine for a slow, careful quad workout.

    Knee Change 2007

  • And a block away there is a girl in the second row with a very charming twist of the vastus medialis.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • The medial surface (facies medialis; internal surface) is broad and concave above, narrow and convex below.

    II. Osteology. 6a. 4. The Ulna 1918

  • It is oftenest found about the tendon of the Adductor longus and Vastus medialis in horsemen, or in the Pectoralis major and Deltoideus of soldiers.

    IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles 1918

  • Muscular branches (rami musculares) are supplied by the femoral artery to the Sartorius, Vastus medialis, and Adductores.

    VI. The Arteries. 6. The Arteries of the Lower Extremity 1918

  • It divides into two branches, one of which supplies the Vastus medialis, anastomosing with the highest genicular and medial inferior genicular arteries; the other ramifies close to the surface of the femur, supplying it and the knee-joint, and anastomosing with the lateral superior genicular artery.

    VI. The Arteries. 6c. The Popliteal Artery 1918

  • Figure showing the mode of innervation of the Recti medialis and lateralis of the eye (after Duval and Laborde).

    Illustrations. Fig. 785 1918

  • On either side of the patella, the synovial membrane extends beneath the aponeuroses of the Vasti, and more especially beneath that of the Vastus medialis.

    III. Syndesmology. 7b. The Knee-joint 1918

  • The inferior, more constantly present, passes forward between the optic nerve and Rectus inferior, and is distributed to the Recti lateralis, medialis, and inferior, and the Obliquus inferior.

    VI. The Arteries. 3a. 4. The Internal Carotid Artery 1918

  • The medial meniscus (meniscus medialis; internal semilunar fibrocartilage) is nearly semicircular in form, a little elongated from before backward, and broader behind than in front; its anterior end, thin and pointed, is attached to the anterior intercondyloid fossa of the tibia, in front of the anterior cruciate ligament; its posterior end is fixed to the posterior intercondyloid fossa of the tibia, between the attachments of the lateral meniscus and the posterior cruciate ligament.

    III. Syndesmology. 7b. The Knee-joint 1918

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