Ackland Anatomy 2

Question 1

The line between the greater and lesser trochanter of femur posteriorly is called?

Answer 1

Intertrochanteric crest

Question 2

Line running down posterior surface of femur?

Answer 2

Gluteal tuberosity

Runs down into linea aspera

Question 3

Which bit of pelvis do we sit on?

Answer 3

Ischial tuberosity

Question 4

What is between the ASIS and PSIS?

Answer 4

Iliac crest

Question 5

Which 2 muscles are above and below obturator internus?

Answer 5

Gemellus superior and inferior

Question 6

6 short hip rotator muscles? What do they do?

Answer 6

Piriformis
Obturator internus and externus
Gemellus superior and inferior
Quadratus femoris

Question 7

5 hip adductors?

Answer 7

Adductor magnus, longus, brevis
Pectineus
Gracilis

Question 8

Where do the hip adductors insert? Except?

Answer 8

Linea aspera and adductor tubercle

Except gracilis, on tibia

Question 9

Where do the hip adductors arise?

Answer 9

Outer ischiopubic region

Question 10

Which is deeper of adductor longus/brevis and magnus?

Answer 10

Magnus

Question 11

Shortest hip adductor is?

Answer 11

Pectineus

Question 12

Most medial thigh muscle?

Answer 12

Gracilis

Question 13

3 hip abductors?

Answer 13

Gluteus minimus and medius

Fascia lata and tensor fascia lata

Question 14

What is the fascia lata and iliotibial tract?

Answer 14

Fascia lata is thick fascial layer around thigh, and IT tract is lateral thickening of this

Question 15

4 hip flexors?

Answer 15

Iliacus - from iliac wing
Psoas major - from L1-5
Quadriceps femoris/rectus femoris
Sartorius

Question 16

Does iliacus and psoas major pass above or below ingunial lig?

Answer 16

Below

Question 17

What is the only part of quadriceps that arises above hip joint and therefore acting as a hip flexor?

Answer 17

Rectus femoris

Question 18

4 hip extensors?

Answer 18

Hamstrings - semimembranosus and semitendinosus, biceps femoris
Gluteus maximus

Question 19

Where do the hamstrings arise?

Answer 19

Ischial tuberosity

Question 20

What does gluteus maxmius do?

Answer 20

Extends hip from flexed position e.g. going up stairs, from squat

Question 21

What forms the IVC?

Answer 21

Left and right common iliac veins

Question 22

What are the 2 initial branches of the femoral artery after it emerges from under the inguinal ligament?

Answer 22

Superficial circumflex iliac (lat)
External pudendal (met)

Question 23

What are the branches of the internal iliac artery?

Answer 23

Superior and inferior gluteal arteries

Question 24

Muscles supplied by femoral nerve?

Answer 24

Iliacus
All 4 heads of quadriceps
Pectineus
Sartorius

Question 25

Muscles supplied by obturator nerve?

Answer 25

Obturator externus | Adductor brevis, longus and anterior part of magnus

Question 26

Origin of lumbar plexus?

Answer 26

L2-S3

Question 27

Origin of sascral plexus?

Answer 27

L4-S3

Question 28

Muscles supplied by superior gluteal nerve?

Answer 28

Gluteus medius Gluteus minimus Tensor fascia lata

Question 29

Muscles supplied by inferior gluteal nerve?

Answer 29

Gluteus maximus

Question 30

Muscles supplied by sciatic nerev in thigh?

Answer 30

Biceps femoris Adductor magnus psoterior part Semimemb and semitend

Question 31

What supplied psoas major?

Answer 31

Small branches of lumbar plexus

Question 32

Piriformis, obturator internus and quadratus femoris are supplied by what nerves?

Answer 32

Small branches of sarcal plexus

Question 33

On which side of the knee is the collateral ligament continuous with the joint capsule?

Answer 33

Medial side

Question 34

3 knee flexors? 2 minor ones?

Answer 34

Semimeb, semitend and biceps femoris | Gracilis and sartorius

Question 35

Which muscles originate either side of the linea aspera?

Answer 35

Vastus medialis and lateralis

Question 36

Which of the knee extensors doesn't arise from the femur?

Answer 36

Rectus fermois - ASIS/acetabluum

Question 37

What forms the edges of the adductor canal?

Answer 37

Adductor longus and vastus medialis, and roof of adductor canal / sartiorius

Question 38

Arteries of lower limb?

Answer 38

Common iliac - external iliac - femoral after inguinal lig (profunda femoris) - SFA - popliteal artery after adductor hiatus (med and lat superior and inferior genicular branches) - gives off posterior tibial (medial and lateral plantar) and peroneal, and anterior tibial arteries (dorsalis pedis)

Question 39

Divisons of the sciatic nerve?

Answer 39

Common peroneal, to superficial and deep - also gives off sural Tibial

Question 40

Where does the short saphenous vein run?

Answer 40

Posterior to lateral malleolus Up back of leg Joins popliteal vein

Question 41

Tibial nerve turns into? Where does it go?

Answer 41

Medial ankle under malleolus and flexor retinaculum | Gives off medial and lateral plantar nerves

Question 42

Ligaments supporting longitudinal arch of foot?

Answer 42

Short plantar ligament Long plantar ligament Plantar aponeurosis

Question 43

What does the foramen rotundum open into?

Answer 43

Pterygomaxillary fissure