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Encyclopedia > Body of pubic bone
Bone: Body of pubic bone
Pelvis. Body is 4a.
Latin corpus ossis pubis
Gray's subject #57 236
Dorlands
/ Elsevier
    
c_56/12260697

The body of pubic bone forms one-fifth of the acetabulum, contributing by its external surface both to the lunate surface and the acetabular fossa. For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... Elseviers logo. ... This article is about anatomical region. ... The acetabulum is a concave surface of the pelvis, formed by the parts of three bones. ...


Its internal surface enters into the formation of the wall of the lesser pelvis and gives origin to a portion of the Obturator internus. The lesser pelvis (or true pelvis) is that part of the pelvic cavity which is situated below and behind the pelvic brim. ... The obturator internus muscle originates on the medial surface of the obturator membrane, the ischium near the membrane, and the rim of the pubis. ...


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This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained herein may be outdated. Please edit the article if this is the case, and feel free to remove this notice when it is no longer relevant. The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, better known as SUNY Downstate Medical Center, is an academic medical center and is the only one of its kind in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... An illustration from the 1918 edition Henry Grays Anatomy of the Human Body (or Grays Anatomy as it has more commonly become known) is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. ...

The lesser pelvis (or true pelvis) is that part of the pelvic cavity which is situated below and behind the pelvic brim. ... The lesser pelvis (or true pelvis) is that part of the pelvic cavity which is situated below and behind the pelvic brim. ... The pelvis is divided by an oblique plane passing through the prominence of the sacrum, the arcuate and pectineal lines, and the upper margin of the symphysis pubis, into the greater pelvis and the lesser pelvis. ... The lower circumference of the lesser pelvis is very irregular; the space enclosed by it is named the inferior aperture or outlet (apertura pelvis [minoris] inferior), and is bounded behind by the point of the coccyx, and laterally by the ischial tuberosities. ... The greater pelvis (or false pelvis) is the expanded portion of the cavity situated above and in front of the pelvic brim. ...


 
 

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