Lecture 14 - 16 Pelvis and Perineum Flashcards
What are the functions of the pelvis (2)?
Weight bearing
Attachment of lower limbs
Where does the head of the femur attach?
Acetabulum
What does the pelvis consist of?
2 x hip bones
1 x sacrum
1 x coccyx
Where do the pair of hip bones join anteriorly and posteriorly?
A - Pubic symphysis
P - Sacrum
What are the three parts of the pelvis?
Ilium, ischium and pubis
Where is the junction of the parts of the pelvis?
Acetabulum
What is the greater cavity surrounded by?
Ilium and upper sacrum
What is the lesser cavity surrounded by?
Soft tissue of pelvic floor
What is the pelvic brim/inlet
The junction between the greater and lesser pelvis
What is the function of the greater and lesser trochanter
They are where muscles that move the thigh outwards attach at the hip joint (abductors)
What does the head of the femur do
Create the “ball and socket joint” or hip joint with the pelvis
What are the anterior and posterior ends of the iliac crest?
Anterosuperior Iliac Spine
Posterosuperior Iliac Spine
What is the anteroinferior iliac spine adjacent to?
The acetabulum
What is the difference between the iliac tuberosity and the tubercle of the iliac crest?
- site of attachment of interosseous ligament
2. thickening of the central part of the iliac crest
What is the gluteal surface? What is attached to the gluteal surface?
Outer posterior surface of the ilum. The gluteal muscles
What is the iliac fossa? What is attached to the iliac fossa?
Inner concave surface. Iliacus
What type of joint is the pubic symphysis?
Cartilaginous
What is attached to the pubic tubercle?
Inguinal ligament
What is the pecten pubis and what is attached to it?
Sharp side running posteriorly from the pubic tubercle. Lacunar ligament
What is the obturator foramen bound by?
The pubis and ilium
What does the inferior pubic ramus join the ischial ramus to form?
Ischiopubic ramus
What is at the junction of the ilium and pubis?
Ileopubic eminence
What are the features of the ilium? (9)
- Anteroinferior iliac spine
- Anterosuperior iliac spine
- Iliac fossa
- Tubercle of iliac crest
- Iliac tuberosity
- Posterosuperior iliac spine
- Posteroinferior iliac spine
- Gluteal surface
- Auricular surface
What are the features of the pubis? (8)
- Pecten pubis
- Pubic tubercle
- Body of pubis
- Pubic symphysis
- Superior pubic ramus
- Inferior pubic ramus
- Ileopubic eminence
- Obturator foramen
What are the features of the ischium?
- Body
- Ischial tuberosity
- Ischial spine
What is attached to the ischial tuberosity?
Sacrotuberous ligament
What is above the ischial tuberosity?
Ischial spine
Where is the greater sciatic notch?
Between the PIIS and ischial spine
What does the greater sciatic notch transmit?
Piriformis
Where is the lesser sciatic notch?
Below the ischial spine
What does the lesser sciatic notch transmit? (4)
- Tendon of obturator internus
- Obturator nerve
- Internal pudendal vessels
- Pudendal nerve