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LABORATORY MANUAL OF HUMAN ANATOMY 



Obturator Artery (A. obturatoria). (Cf. Spalteholz, Fig. 469.) 



Eeflect the M. obturator externus and in it and beneath it find 

 the following branches of the obturator artery : 



(a) Anterior ramus (ramus anterior). 



(b) Posterior ramus (ramus posterior). 



(ba) Artery of acetabulum (A. acetabuli). 



HIP- JOINT (ARTICULATIO COXAE}. 



Cut through the A. femoralis, V. femoralis, and N. femoralis 

 two or three centimetres below Poupart's ligament; tie the dis- 



FIG. 62. 



Lig. iliofemorale 

 (fasc. ilio-pretrochanter.) 



Memb. obturat. 



Articulatio coxae, anterior view. (From Poirier et Charpy, Traits 

 d'Anat. hum., Paris, 1899, 2 ed., t. i. p. 716, Fig. 721.) 



tal stumps together and reflect them distalward. Then cut 

 through the M. sartorius and M. rectus femoris five centimetres 

 from their origin and reflect them. Cut away the conjoined 

 tendon of the M. iliacus and M. psoas at its insertion and turn 

 it proximalward. Examine the bursa iliopectinea, the bursa M. 



