. Human physiology (Volume 1) . 398 MUSCULAR MOTION. Fig. which is in the iliofemoral articulations; the power and resist-ance being situate before and behind. The pelvis supports the weight of a part of the abdominalviscera; and the sacrum that of thevertebral column, which, by reasonof its shape, transmits the weightequally to the ossa femorum,throughthe medium of the ossa ilii. Whenthe pelvis is, therefore, in equili-brium on the heads of the thighbones, this is owing to many abdominal viscera, pressing upon Lateral Vie* of a Lumbar Vertebra. ^ anterioj. pan Qf the pelyis w
. Human physiology (Volume 1) . 398 MUSCULAR MOTION. Fig. which is in the iliofemoral articulations; the power and resist-ance being situate before and behind. The pelvis supports the weight of a part of the abdominalviscera; and the sacrum that of thevertebral column, which, by reasonof its shape, transmits the weightequally to the ossa femorum,throughthe medium of the ossa ilii. Whenthe pelvis is, therefore, in equili-brium on the heads of the thighbones, this is owing to many abdominal viscera, pressing upon Lateral Vie* of a Lumbar Vertebra. ^ anterioj. pan Qf the pelyis whjch 1. The body. 5. Spinous process. 6. ,, \ .. , r .7 , Transverse process. 7. Superior articular IS naturally inclined IOrwaidS, tends processes. 8. Inferior articular processes. tQ depress the os pubis ; whilst the vertebral column, by its weight, tends to press down the the weight of the latter is much more considerable than that ofthe former, muscles would seem to be required to keep it in equi-librium, as well as muscles passing from the
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