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What bones make up the bony pelvis (pelvic girdle)?
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Hip bones, sacrum, & caudal vertebrae
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What is the common name for the os coxae?
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Hip bones, coxal bones
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Of what does the hip bone consist?
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Fused ilium, ischium, pubis & acetabular bones
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What hip bone concavity articulates with the head of the femur?
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Acetabulum
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What are the large openings in the floor of the pelvic girdle?
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Obturator foramina
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What part of the ilium articulates with the sacrum?
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Wings
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What is the junction of the right and left os coxae?
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Pelvic symphysis
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What is the bony entrance into the pelvis?
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Pelvic inlet
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What does the pelvic girdle enclose?
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Pelvis
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What is the palpable prominence of the lateral wing of the ilium?
What is the common name? |
Tuber coxae/ point of hip
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What is the thick, caudal part of the ischium?
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Ischiatic tuberosity
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What medial process of the wing of the ilium is next to the sacrum?
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Tuber sacrale
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What is the caudal indentation between the ischiatic tuberosities?
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Ischiatic arch
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What large prominence is lateral to the head of the femur?
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Greater Trochanter of the femur
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What is the prominence distal to the head of the femur (medial side)?
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Lesser Trochanter
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The petella articulates with the _______ surface of the femur.
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Trochlea or patellar surface of trochlea of the femur
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What depression on the head of the femur is for the round ligament?
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Fovea capitis
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What joins the head of the femur with the body of the femur?
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Neck of femur
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What is the depression between the trochanters of the femur?
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Trochanteric fossa
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What small process is distal to the greater trochanter of the femur?
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Third Trochanter
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What are the large knuckle like structures on the distal femur?
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Medial and lateral condyle
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What is the depression between the lateral condyle and the trochlea of the femur for the attachment of the long digital extensor muscle?
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Extensor fossa
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What is the medial and lateral elevation on the distal femur?
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Medial and Lateral epicondyles
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What is the knee cap?
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Patella
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What are the two sesamoid bones in the heads of the gastrocnemius?
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Medial & lateral sesamoids (fabellae) of the gastrocnemius muscle
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