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"Quads" redirects here. For other uses see Quad
The quadriceps femoris (quadriceps extensor, or quads) includes the four remaining muscles on the front of the thigh. It is the great extensor muscle of the leg, forming a large fleshy mass which covers the front and sides of the femur.
It is subdivided into separate portions, which have received distinctive names.
One occupying the middle of the butt, and connected above with the ilium, is called from its straight course the rectus femoris.
The other three lie in immediate connection with the body of the femur, which they cover from the trochanters to the condyles:
Quadriceps muscle
| | Name | PAGENAME | | Latin | musculus quadriceps femoris | | Graysubject | 128 | | image |  | | Caption | Muscles of lower extremity. (Vastus intermedi... | | Image2 | Gray432.png | | Caption2 | Cross-section through the middle of the thigh... | | Origin | combined rectus femoris and vastus muscles | | Dorlandspre | m_22 | | Dorlandssuf | 12550408 |
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