1786BlumenbachJF

Fragments from the book Blumenbach JF. Geschichte und Beschreibung der Knochen des menschlichen Körpers (1786). The author briefly writes about the anatomy and attachment of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF). The text is prepared for machine translation using a service built into the blog from Google or your web browser. In some cases, we have added links to quotations about LCF available on our resource, as well as to publications posted on the Internet.

Quote p. 325

§ 265

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So wie die äußere Knorpelfläche das eigentliche Gelenk ausmacht an welchem sich der Schenkelkopf bewegt, so dient die rauhe innere Grube zur Aufnahme Haversischer Drüsen deren Gelenkschmiere diese Bewegung erleichtert.

Endlich ist auf dem Boden der innern Grube nach unten noch eine rauhe kleine Bertiefung zu merken, in welcher das runde kurze Band ansikt, dessen andres. Ende auf dem Schenkelkopf befestigt ist (**)

** TH. SCHWENCKE obs. anat. de acetabuli ligamento interno, caput femoris firmante an dess. Haematologia Hagae C. 1743. 8. pag. 201 sg.

Quote p. 416.

§ 380

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Neben diesem Mittelpunkt nach unten liegt eine kleine Grube in welcher das untre Ende dom ligamentum teres (*) (s. suspensorium) fißt, dessen oberes in der oben gedachten änlichen Grube der Pfanne befeftigt ist (**) (§ 265)

* WEITBRECHT tab. XVII, fig. 56. g. b. i. k.

** Ein paar überaus seltne Fälle, wo diese runden Bander an beiden Schenkelkopfen und ihren Pfannen gänzlich gefebik, s. in BERN. GENGA anatomia chirurgica. Rom. 1687. 8. pag. 124 sg. und in H. ALB. NICOLAI (Praes. Jo. Salzmann) decas obseruat. anatomic. Argent. 1725. 4. p. 10.

External links

Blumenbach JF. Geschichte und Beschreibung der Knochen des menschlichen Körpers. Göttingen: John Christian Dieterich, 1786. [archive.org]

Authors & Affiliations

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist, professor of medicine in Göttingen. [wikipedia.org]

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Stipple engraving, unknown author,
original in the wellcomecollection.org
(CC0 – Public Domain, fragment)

Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, anatomy, attachment

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