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Hip bone: landmarks, surfaces, and reliefs

Understand the three-dimensional architecture of the hip bone, its articulations, reliefs, and role in the pelvic girdle.

  • 25 explained questions
  • 22 flashcards
  • 101 estimated course minutes

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What you will learn

  • Orient a hip bone and identify the ilium, pubis, and ischium.
  • Describe its surfaces, acetabulum, obturator foramen, borders, and angles.
  • Relate each relief to a stated articulation, attachment, or anatomical relationship.
  • Use the pelvic ring, acetabulum, and apophyses as landmarks in fractures and avulsion injuries.

Course outline

  1. From the pelvic girdle to the hip bone

    The hip bone within the pelvis before its reliefs are studied.

    8 min

  2. Position, orientation, and constitution

    Orient the hip bone, define its articulations, and recognize its three fused components.

    12 min

  3. Lateral surface and acetabulum

    Identify the three territories of the lateral surface and understand acetabular organization.

    18 min

  4. Obturator foramen, pubis, and ischium

    Describe the bony frame of the obturator foramen and the branches that form it.

    15 min

  5. Medial surface: iliac and endopelvic territories

    Read the arcuate line and the articular, muscular, and endopelvic territories of the medial surface.

    14 min

  6. Borders and angles: tracing the bony outline

    Follow the four borders methodically and identify the four angles of the hip bone.

    20 min

  7. Clinical implications of the pelvic ring

    Relate pelvic-ring and acetabular fractures and apophyseal avulsions to the architecture of the hip bone.

    14 min

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