Even though the linea alba is not a muscle, Terminologia Anatomica lists it under abdominal muscles. Why would that be? It's because the linea alba is formed by the interlacing aponeuroses of three vertical abdominal muscles: external oblique, internal oblique and transversus abdominis muscles.
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