Pelvic surface of sacrum

Pelvic surface of sacrum

Infobox Bone
Name = Pelvic surface of sacrum
Latin = facies pelvica ossis sacri
GraySubject = 24
GrayPage = 106



Caption = Sacrum, pelvic surface.


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The pelvic surface of sacrum is concave from above downward, and slightly so from side to side.

Its middle part is crossed by four transverse ridges, the positions of which correspond with the original planes of separation between the five segments of the bone.

The portions of bone intervening between the ridges are the bodies of the sacral vertebrae.

The body of the first segment is of large size, and in form resembles that of a lumbar vertebra; the succeeding ones diminish from above downward, are flattened from before backward, and curved so as to accommodate themselves to the form of the sacrum, being concave in front, convex behind.

At the ends of the ridges are seen the anterior sacral foramina, four in number on either side, somewhat rounded in form, diminishing in size from above downward, and directed lateralward and forward; they give exit to the anterior divisions of the sacral nerves and entrance to the lateral sacral arteries.

Lateral to these foramina are the lateral parts of the sacrum, each consisting of five separate segments at an early period of life; in the adult, these are blended with the bodies and with each other.

Each lateral part is traversed by four broad, shallow grooves, which lodge the anterior divisions of the sacral nerves, and are separated by prominent ridges of bone which give origin to the Piriformis muscle.

If a sagittal section be made through the center of the sacrum, the bodies are seen to be united at their circumferences by bone, wide intervals being left centrally, which, in the fresh state, are filled by the intervertebral fibrocartilages.

In some bones this union is more complete between the lower than the upper segments.

External links

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* - "The Female Pelvis: Bones"


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