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the entrance to the crural canal seems not to fill up all the space 
between Poupart and the os pubis; as none of the lymphatic 
vessels on its way to the pelvis passes directly beneath Poupart, 
but they all dive down to a deeper level. And when palpating 
cautiously along the frontal border of the complex of lymphatic 
vessels, we feel that the frontal border of the entrance to the crural 
canal is formed not by Poupart’s ligament but by another tightly 
stretched connective tissue band, which runs parallel to Poupart, 
but is about 1 ¢.m. lower and lies somewhat deeper, and is approxi- 
mately concentric with the curving fibres of Gimbernat’s ligament; 
it also appears that this frontal border as well as Gimbernat’s 
ligament converged with the fascia pectinea. 
Through this palpation we were able to corroborate to some 
extent LA CHAPELLE’s finding and now it will not be difficult to 
lay bare the bundle of fibres under consideration. If namely the 
lymphatic vessels are prepared away, we can see this bundie as 
well as when we felt it just now. (Fig. 1). We see then that the 
entrance to the crural canal is bounded at the front by this strand, 
which is separated from Poupart by a ioose- meshed connective tissue. 
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