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The adductor tubercle is a tubercle on the lower extremity of the femur. It is formed where the medial lips of the linea aspera end below at the summit of the medial condyle. It is the insertion point of the tendon of the vertical fibers of the adductor magnus muscle.^[1]^[2]

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 246 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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