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  2. Ischium - Wikipedia

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    The ischium is made up of three parts–the body, the superior ramus and the inferior ramus. The body contains a prominent spine , which serves as the origin for the superior gemellus muscle . The indentation inferior to the spine is the lesser sciatic notch .

  3. Ischial tuberosity - Wikipedia

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    The ischial tuberosity (or tuberosity of the ischium, tuber ischiadicum), also known colloquially as the sit bones or sitz bones, [1] or as a pair the sitting bones, [2] is a large posterior bony protuberance on the superior ramus of the ischium. It marks the lateral boundary of the pelvic outlet.

  4. Hip bone - Wikipedia

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    The ischium forms the lower and back part of the hip bone and is located below the ilium and behind the pubis. The ischium is the strongest of the three regions that form the hip bone. It is divisible into three portions: the body, the superior ramus, and the inferior ramus. The body forms approximately one-third of the acetabulum.

  5. Ischial spine - Wikipedia

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    The ischial spine is part of the posterior border of the body of the ischium bone of the pelvis. It is a thin and pointed triangular eminence, more or less elongated in different subjects. It is a thin and pointed triangular eminence, more or less elongated in different subjects.

  6. Ischiopubic ramus - Wikipedia

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    from the ischium, the inferior ramus of the ischium; It forms the inferior border of the obturator foramen and serves as part of the origin for the obturator internus and externus muscles. Also, most adductors originate at the ischiopubic ramus. The fascia of Colles is on attached to its margin.

  7. Flat bone - Wikipedia

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    Flat bones are bones whose principal function is either extensive protection or the provision of broad surfaces for muscular attachment. These bones are expanded into broad, flat plates , [ 1 ] as in the cranium ( skull ), the ilium, ischium, and pubis ( pelvis ), sternum and the rib cage .

  8. Crus of penis - Wikipedia

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    Each crus begins proximally as a blunt-pointed process in anterior to the tuberosity of the ischium, along the perineal surface of the conjoined (ischiopubic) ramus. [citation needed] Just proximal to the convergence of the two crura, they come into contact with the bulb of (corpus cavernosum of) penis. [citation needed]

  9. Lateral rotator group - Wikipedia

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    The lateral rotator group is a group of six small muscles of the hip which all externally (laterally) rotate the femur in the hip joint.It consists of the following muscles: piriformis, gemellus superior, obturator internus, gemellus inferior, quadratus femoris and the obturator externus.