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Avulsion fractures of the hip bone (avulsion or tearing away of the ischial tuberosity) may occur in adolescents and young adults during sports that require sudden acceleration or deceleration forces, such as sprinting or kicking in football, soccer, jumping hurdles, basketball, and martial arts.
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is a thick, rough-surfaced prominence below the lesser sciatic notch. This is the portion that supports weight while sitting (especially noticeable on a hard surface) and can be felt simply by sitting on the fingers. It serves as the origin for the
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all meet, and into which the head of the femur inserts. The orientation and position of the acetabulum is one of the main morphological traits that caused dinosaurs to walk in an upright posture with their legs directly underneath their bodies.
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The ridges are continuous with similar ones on the inferior ramus of the pubis: to the outer is attached the deep layer of the superficial perineal fascia (fascia of Colles), and to the inner the inferior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm.
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The external surface is quadrilateral in shape. It is bounded above by a groove that lodges the tendon of the external obturator; below, it is continuous with the inferior ramus; in front it is limited by the posterior margin of the
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The superior ramus of the ischium (descending ramus) projects downward and backward from the body and presents for examination three surfaces: external, internal, and posterior.
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The inferior ramus of the ischium (ascending ramus) is the thin, flattened part of the ischium, which ascends from the superior ramus, and joins the inferior ramus of the
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To the intervening space, just in front of the point of junction of the ridges, the transverse perineal attaches, and in front of this is a portion of the
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Its medial border is thick, rough, slightly everted, forms part of the outlet of the pelvis, and presents two ridges and an intervening space.
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Wootton, JR; Cross, MJ; Holt, KW (July 1990). "Avulsion of the ischial apophysis. The case for open reduction and internal fixation".
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A Prelude to Modern Science: Being a Discussion of the History, Sources and Circumstances of the 'Tabulae Anatomicae Sex' of Vesalius
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Saladin, Kenneth S. Anatomy and Physiology The Unity of Form and Function. 5th ed. McGraw-Hill Science Engineering, 2009. Print.
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The internal surface forms part of the bony wall of the lesser pelvis. In front, it is limited by the posterior margin of the
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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
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Martin, A.J. (2006). Introduction to the Study of Dinosaurs. Second Edition. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing. pg. 299-300.
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Left hip-joint, opened by removing the floor of the acetabulum from within the pelvis. (Ischium labeled at bottom left.)
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Tracing these two ridges downward, they join with each other just behind the point of origin of the
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into English-language medical literature dates back to c. 1640; the Latin term derives from Greek
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and the ischial tuberosity, and is usually caused by prolonged sitting on a hard surface.
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Knowledge articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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Its lateral border is thin and sharp, and forms part of the medial margin of the
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chapter 20, ed. Kühn, vol. 2, p. 772, cited after Charles Singer, C. Rabin,
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The body enters into and constitutes a little more than two-fifths of the
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On the classification of the fossil animals commonly named Dinosauria.
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at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The Male Peniel: Hip Bone"
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Dalley, Keith L. Moore, Anne M.R. Agur, Arthur F. (2010).
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anteriorly and is the strongest of the hip (coxal) bones.
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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume
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Superior gemellus
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D007512
TA98
A02.5.01.201
TA2
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/ˈɪski.əm/
hip bone
ilium
pubis
coxal bone

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