ILIACUS 



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Between these attachments it invests the front of the ihacus and psoas muscles. 

 \hove, it is continued upwards as the covering of the latter muse e, at the sides of 

 which it is attached to the transverse processes and l^odies of the lumbar vertebra, 

 as well as to the inten-ertebral discs and the small, tendinous arches which bridge 

 the side of the bodies of these vertebrae. At the diaphragm it is thickened, and 



Fig. 287.— Muscles of the Feoxt of the Thigh. 



Adductor brevis 



Adductor longus 



Adductor magBus 



Vastus internus 



Tendon of aartorius 



Gluteus medius 



Gluteus minimus 

 Tensor vaginae femoris 



Kectus femoris 



Ilio-tibial band of fascia lata 



Vastus externus 



Ligamentum patellae 



forms the ligamentum arcuatum internum; near the tips of ^l^^^transA er.e proce.. . 

 of the lumbar vertebra^ it is attached to the anterior layer of the lumbar tasaa 

 (pa.e 40S). Below, it joins beneath the outer half of Poupart's ligament with the 

 transversalis fascia, but internal to this it passes downwards into the ^^^^ 

 ing with the transversalis fascia the sheath of the femoral ves.el.. Still turtlicr 



