Extensor pollicis et indicis communis
list of anatomical variations
To do
edit- Add history to medial arcuate ligament.
- Add arches of Haller to history section of medial and lateral arcuate ligament.
- Add Galen reference to history for levator ani.
- Add damage to levator ani during childbirth and involvement in incontinence and prolapse.
The arcuate ligaments were described from animal dissections by Galen in his Rome lectures of AD 177, collected in 'De Anatomicus Administrationibus'.[1][2] Together with the lateral arcuate ligament this structure forms the 'Arches of Haller'.[3]
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- ^ Galen, Singer C (Trans.) "Galen on anatomical procedures: de Anatomicis administrationibus", Oxford University Press, 1956, p143.[1]
- ^ Derenne JP, Debru A, Grassino AE, Whitelaw WA (1995). "History of diaphragm physiology: the achievements of Galen". Eur. Respir. J. 8 (1): 154–60. PMID 7744182.
- ^ Sobotta J, McMurrich J,Atlas and textbook of human anatomy, Saunders, Philadelphia, 1909. p.165 [2]