. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. Veterinary anatomy. TEE POSTERIOR LIMBS. 101 Fig. 64. deep groove in which passes a tendinous cord; it is excavated, in front, by a vertically elongated fossa which lodges the middle ligament of the patella. The external tuberosity, medium in size and the most detached, has outwardly an articular facet for the head of the fibula. The internal tuberosity, the largest and least detached, presents: on the sides, ligamentous imprints; behind, a small tubercle which gives attachment to the pos- terior crucial ligament of the femoro-tibial artic
. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. Veterinary anatomy. TEE POSTERIOR LIMBS. 101 Fig. 64. deep groove in which passes a tendinous cord; it is excavated, in front, by a vertically elongated fossa which lodges the middle ligament of the patella. The external tuberosity, medium in size and the most detached, has outwardly an articular facet for the head of the fibula. The internal tuberosity, the largest and least detached, presents: on the sides, ligamentous imprints; behind, a small tubercle which gives attachment to the pos- terior crucial ligament of the femoro-tibial articu- lation. The superior face of the two lateral tube- rosities is occupied by two large irregular and undulated articular surfaces, which respond to the condyles of the femur through the medium of the two meniscus-shaped fibro-cartilages interposed be- tween the two bones. Of these two surfaces the external is always the widest, because it serves, by its posterior part, for the gliding movements of the popliteal tendon. They are separated from each other by the tibial spine, a conical articular eminence divided into two lateral parts by a groove of inser- tion excavated at its base, and in front by two lateral facets for the insertion, anteriorly, of the two inter- articular cartilages; it is bordered behind by another fossa which receives the posterior insertion of the internal meniscus. The inferior extremity, flattened behind and before, exhibits an articular surface moulded on the pulley of the astragalus, and two lateral tuberosities. The articular surface is formed by two deep cavities oblique from behind to before and within outwards, and separated by a median tenon which terminates pos- teriorly by a very prominent projection on which the bone rests when it is made to stand vertically on a horizontal plane. I'he external tuberosity ^ projects but little, and is traversed in its middle by a vertical fissure. The internal tuberosity,^ better defined, is margined posterior
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