Medial head of gastrocnemius

Caput mediale musculi gastrocnemii

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Definition

Description:
The medial and larger head takes its origin from a depression at the upper and back part of the medial condyle and from the adjacent part of the femur.

References

This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).

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