tuberosity

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You can feel the ischial tuberosity if you wiggle your pelvis against the seat of a chair.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The large, roughened area of the inferior ischium is the ischial tuberosity.

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The slightly curved posterior margin of the ischium above the ischial tuberosity is the lesser sciatic notch.

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Together, these form the single ischiopubic ramus, which extends from the pubic body to the ischial tuberosity.

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Its fibres are directed downwards and forwards, to be inserted into the great tuberosity of the humerus—the trochiter—below the insertion of the supraspinatus.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard