adductor canal

It should not be confused with the nearby adductor canal.

It is the termination of the adductor canal and lies about 2 inches superior to the knee.

Distally, the fibers of the adductor longus extend into the adductor canal.

It continues along the femur to provide blood to the arteries that circulate the knee and the foot and enters the adductor canal.

After it emerges from the adductor canal through the adductor hiatus, it is named the popliteal artery.

The saphenous nerve doesn't actually leave through the adductor hiatus but penetrates superficially halfway through the adductor canal.

The artery enters the thigh as the femoral artery which descends the medial side of the thigh to the adductor canal.

It drains the peroneal vein before reaching the knee joint and turns into the femoral vein when leaving the adductor canal (also known as Hunter's canal).

In human anatomy, the popliteal artery is defined as the extension of the "superficial" femoral artery after passing through the adductor canal and adductor hiatus above the knee.

The saphenous branch of descending genicular artery pierces the aponeurotic covering of the adductor canal, and accompanies the saphenous nerve to the medial side of the knee.

The adductor canal (subsartorial or Hunter's canal) is an aponeurotic tunnel in the middle third of the thigh, extending from the apex of the femoral triangle to the opening in the adductor magnus, the adductor hiatus.

It approaches the femoral artery where this vessel passes beneath the sartorius, and lies in front of the artery, behind the aponeurotic covering of the adductor canal, as far as the opening in the lower part of the Adductor magnus.