| Bone: Ischium of pelvis | |
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| Pelvic girdle | |
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| Left hip-joint, opened by removing the floor of the acetabulum from within the pelvis. (Ischium labeled at bottom left. ) | |
| Latin | os ischii |
| Gray's | subject #57 234 |
| MeSH | Ischium |
| Dorlands / Elsevier | o_07/12598437 |
The ischium forms the lower and back part of the hip bone. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Introduction ( classes Long bones body or Diaphysis Medullary canal Medical Subject Headings ( MeSH) is a huge Controlled vocabulary (or metadata system for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group The hip bone, innominate bone or coxal bone is a large flattened irregularly shaped bone constricted in the center and expanded above and below It is situated below the ilium. The ilium of the Pelvis is divisible into two parts the body and the ala the separation is indicated on the top surface by a curved line the arcuate line and on the The word comes from the Greek ischion, meaning "hip. " (Taber's, 1985).
It is divisible into three portions:
- Body of ischium - the portion that supports weight while sitting (especially noticable on a hard surface). The body of the Ischium enters into and constitutes a little more than two-fifths of the Acetabulum.
- Superior ramus of the ischium
- Inferior ramus of the ischium
External links
- SUNY Labs 44:st-0722 - "The Male Pelvis: Hip Bone"
- ischium at eMedicine Dictionary
- Cross section at UV pelvis/pelvis-e12-15
Additional images
 Right hip bone. The superior ramus of the Ischium ( descending ramus) projects downward and backward from the body and presents for examination three surfaces external internal The Inferior Ramus of the Ischium ( ascending ramus) is the thin flattened part of the Ischium, which ascends from the Superior ramus, and joins The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, better known as SUNY Downstate Medical Center, is an academic medical center and is the only one of its kind eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely two medical doctors The Medical University of Vienna (German Medizinische Universität Wien short MUW, formerly the faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna, became an External surface. |  Right hip bone. Internal surface. |  Plan of ossification of the hip bone. |  Male pelvis. |
 The Obturator externus. |  Pelvis |
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Dictionary
ischium
-noun
- (anatomy) The lowest of the three bones that make up each side of the pelvis.
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