Quadriceps Picture
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 thigh, 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 trochanter to the condyles. The
portion on the lateral side of the femur is termed the vastus lateralis;
that covering the medial side, the vastus medialis; and that in front,
the vastus intermedius.
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