1111 FASCLE O] rHE LOWER EXTR] 



Thi iths are held in place : \ the laciniaU internal annui u 



a wide, poorly defined band w the in; 



inner and upper border of the i al< a r»d parti) to th< 



ward as the navicular bone. Il 01 tain three distinctly 

 synovial sheaths. 



In the sole of the Idition to the continuati 



halhh is longus and digitorum longus, th< 



. which surrounds the tendon of this muscle in its : ivithin I 



the cuboid I igs. and 316) and almost to the poii n.* 



■ 1 above (dorsal to) the flexor digitorum l>ri\i- and thi 

 and tinaculum is furnished by a prolongation of some of the fib 



ment which pass beyond the cuboid to tin f the metatarsal boi 



ilso \»< d sheaths v, hi< 1. ble th< 



. although they arc correspondingly shorter and smaller. The l< 

 thai for the tendon of the flexor polli< is I i retinacula for these sh< 



•iiih are anali to the similai 



\\ ithin ti. ictly ti 



which we have previously observed in the fingers, since the weak tend -urn 



ire perforated l>\ the much stronger tend the flexor digitorum 1" 



THE FASCIA OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY. 

 The lower extremity i> enveloped i: 

 ually thick in certain situations. In the different 1 mity th 



qucntl) : the iliac 1 



ia, tin ! the plantar 



THE I I.I AC FASCIA. 

 1 interior surfa< the ilio] 



V the inner margin of th. major thi- 1 with the • 



outer margin it ; int.) the thigh with the il: and j 



the Uio pectineal tion of th< 1:. this th 



attached to the anterior superior spine »>f the ilium, to the inguinal ligament, 

 tineal eminence (the Hi liganu 1 divides the - 



into two compartments, an outer compartment for the ili> moral 



musculorum, ami an inner one for the femoral \m. The ilia 



directly continuous with the transversalis e page 163 . Hie lacuna 



off and bounded internally by the lacunar (Gimbernat's) ligament 

 the internal femoral ring (see pag< 



THE FASCIA OF THE THIGH. FASCIA LATA. 



The fascia lata (Figs. 317 and 318 ts of two layers which are separ nly in certain 



situations, and its different portions vary greatly in thickness. It is -.udinal 



* Within this sheath the tendon of the peroc >id bom 



