Body of ischium

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Bone: Body of ischium

Right hip bone. External surface. (Ischium is at bottom left.)

Capsule of hip-joint (distended). Posterior aspect.
Latin	corpus ossis ischii
Gray's	subject #57 235
Dorlands/Elsevier	c_56/12260665

The body of the ischium enters into and constitutes a little more than two-fifths of the acetabulum.

1 Surfaces
2 Borders
3 Above and below the spine
4 Additional images
5 External links

[edit] Surfaces

Its external surface forms part of the lunate surface of the acetabulum and a portion of the acetabular fossa.

Its internal surface is part of the wall of the lesser pelvis; it gives origin to some fibers of the Obturator internus.

[edit] Borders

Its anterior border projects as the posterior obturator tubercle.

From its posterior border there extends backward a thin and pointed triangular eminence, the ischial spine, more or less elongated in different subjects.

[edit] Above and below the spine

Above the spine is a large notch, the greater sciatic notch.

Below the spine is a smaller notch, the lesser sciatic notch.

[edit] Additional images

Right hip bone. Internal surface.

Left hip-joint, opened by removing the floor of the acetabulum from within the pelvis.

[edit] External links

SUNY Labs 44:st-0723 - "The Male Pelvis: Hip Bone"

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Bones of pelvis/pelvic cavity

sacrum, coccyx, hip bone

Ilium: Arcuate line - Wing - gluteal lines (Posterior, Anterior, Inferior) - Fossa - Tuberosity - Crest - iliac spines (Anterior superior - Anterior inferior - Posterior superior - Posterior inferior)