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Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical (electronic resource)
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Carter, H. V., ill Westmacott, John Guise, Dr, ill
Subjects: Anatomy
Publisher: London : J.W. Parker
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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inch lower than the head.It presents for examination two surfaces,and four borders. Its external surface, quadrilateral inform, is broad, rough, convex, and markedby a prominent diagonal line, which ex-tends from the posterior superior to theanterior inferior angle: this line servesfor the attachment of the tendon of theG-luteus medius. Above the line is a tri-angular surface, sometimes rough for partof the tendon of the same muscle, some-times smooth for the interposition of abursa between that tendon and the bone.Below and behind the diagonal line is asmooth triangular surface, over which thetendon of the Gluteus maximus muscleplays, a bursa being interposed. The in-ternal surface is of much less extentthan the external, and presents at its basea deep depression, the digital or trochan-teric fossa, for the attachment of the ten-don of the Obturator externus muscle. The superior border is free; it is thickand irregular, and marked by impressions 103.—Right Femur. Anterior Surface.
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128 OSTEOLOGY. for the attachment of the Pjriformis behind, the Obturator internus and G-emelliin front. The mferior border corresponds to the point of junction of the base ofthe trochanter with the outer surface of the shaft; it is rough, prominent, slightlycurved, and gives attachment to the upper part of the Vastus externus muscle.The anterior harder is prominent, somewhat irregular, as well as the surface ofbone immediately below it; it affords attachment by its outer part to the Gluteusminimus. The -posterior border is very prominent, and appears as a free roundededge, which forms the back part of the digital fossa. The Lesser Trochanter is a conical eminence, which varies in size in differentsubjects; it projects from the lower and back part of the base of the neck. Itsbase is triangular, and connected with the adjacent parts of the bone by three well-marked borders: of these, the superior is continuous with the lower border of theneck; the posterior, with the posterior intertro

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