Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affecting the sacrum and ischium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the sacrum and the ischium: as, the sacrosciatic notch or ligaments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sacrum and the hip.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of, relating to, or affecting the
sacrum andischium .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The posterior part lies partly upon and partly in the texture of the sacrosciatic ligament.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Herniae may happen at other localities, such as at the thyroid aperture, which transmits the thyroid vessels; and at the greater sacrosciatic notch, through which the gluteal vessels pass; and all regions of the abdominal walls may give exit to intestinal protrusion in consequence of malformations, disease, or injury.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The manner of attachment or connection between the ilia and the trunk is materially different from that of the scapulae, however, and the angles as formed by the long axes of the ilia in relation to the spinal column are maintained by two functionally antagonistic structures -- the sacrosciatic ligaments, and the abdominal muscles by means of the prepubian tendon.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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The Sacrotuberous Ligament (ligamentum sacrotuberosum; great or posterior sacrosciatic ligament).
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The Sacrospinous Ligament (ligamentum sacrospinosum; small or anterior sacrosciatic ligament).
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It then passed through the small sacrosciatic notch, completely dividing the pudic artery and nerve, and one vein, each end being closed by a clot.
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At the autopsy it was found that the knife had passed through the gluteal muscles and divided part of the great sacrosciatic ligament.
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Couper 13.28 reports a fatal case of stab-wound of the buttocks, in which the knife passed through the lesser sacrosciatic notch and entered the bladder close to the trigone.
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The bladder is not always injured by penetration of the abdominal wall, but may be wounded by penetration through the anus or vagina, or even by an instrument entering the buttocks and passing through the smaller sacrosciatic notch.
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The ball struck him on the horizontal ramus of the left pubic bone, about an inch from the symphysis, passed through the bladder and rectum, and came out just below the right sacrosciatic notch, near the sacrum.
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