Identifier: anatomydescripti1897gray (find matches)
Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Carter, H. V. (Henry Vandyke), 1831-1897 Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919
Subjects: Anatomy Human anatomy Anatomy, Surgical and topographical
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ards and out-wards to the upper part of the great sacro-sciatic notch, where it terminates, itbecomes less marked, and is often altogether lost. Behind this line is a narrowsemilunar surface, the upper part of which is rough and affords attachment topart of the Gluteus maximus; the lower part is smooth and has no muscularfibres attached to it. The middle curved line, the longest of the three, com- OS INNOMINATUM 261 mences at the crest, about an inch behind its anterior extremity, and, taking acurved direction downwards and baclcwards, terminates at the upper part ofthe great sacro-sciatic notch. The space between the superior and middlecurved hues and the crest is concave, and affords attachment to the Gluteusmedius muscle. Near the central part of this line may often be observed theorifice of a nutrient foramen. The inferior curved line, the least distinct of thethree, commences in front at the notch on the anterior border, and, taking a Fig. -Kight OS innominatnm. Internal surface.
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TRAN5UEPSUS PERINSlERECTOR PENIS curved direction backwards and downwards, terminates at the middle of thegreat sacro-sciatic notch. The surface of bone included between the middle andinferior curved lines is concave from above downwards, convex from beforebackwards, and affords attachment to the Gluteus minimus muscle. Beneaththe inferior curved line, and corresponding to the upper part of the acetabulum,is a roughened surface (sometimes a depression), to which is attached the reflectedtendon of the Rectus femoris muscle. The Internal Surface (fig. 232) of the ilium is bounded above by the crest; 262 THE SKELETON below it is continuous with the pelvic surfaces of the os pubis and ischium, afaint line only indicating the place of union; and before and behind it isbounded by the anterior and posterior borders. It presents anteriorly a large,smooth, concave surface, called the internal iliac fossa, or venter of the ilittm,which lodges the Iliacus muscle, and presents at its low^er part

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