tuberosity

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The sacrum is also joined to the hip bone by the sacrospinous ligament, which attaches to the ischial spine, and the sacrotuberous ligament, which attaches to the ischial tuberosity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Projecting superiorly and anteriorly from the ischial tuberosity is a narrow segment of bone called the ischial ramus.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

This large opening is defined by the inferior margin of the pubic symphysis anteriorly, and the ischiopubic ramus, the ischial tuberosity, the sacrotuberous ligament, and the inferior tip of the coccyx posteriorly.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Just below this on the anterior ulna is a roughened area called the ulnar tuberosity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Its fibres are directed downwards and forwards, to be inserted into the great tuberosity of the humerus—the trochiter—below the insertion of the supraspinatus.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard