Overview
In cattle it is a large, fan-shaped muscle. Its fleshy part arises from the tuber coxae (the "hook" or point of the hip), fills the angle between the gluteus medius and the quadriceps and continues into the fascia lata, the thick lateral fascia of the thigh that reaches the patella.
Origin
Tuber coxae (tuber coxae).
Insertion
Fascia lata and, through it, the patella.
Action
Flexes the hip and extends the stifle by tensing the fascia lata.
Innervation
Cranial gluteal nerve (n. gluteus cranialis).