. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . of the femurin connection with the head of the gastrocnemius, and inserted into the styloid process ofthe flbula. It isnot constant. Be-hind, the capsule isbroad and sheet-like(Fig. 3085), receiv-ing fascial expan-sions fro 111 t h etendonsof the semi-membranosus ii n dp o p 1 i t e u s. Theband from t liesemimembranosusis sometimes de-scribed as the pop-liteal ligament, andthe whole sheet asthe posterior liga-ment of is everywhere thickn
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . of the femurin connection with the head of the gastrocnemius, and inserted into the styloid process ofthe flbula. It isnot constant. Be-hind, the capsule isbroad and sheet-like(Fig. 3085), receiv-ing fascial expan-sions fro 111 t h etendonsof the semi-membranosus ii n dp o p 1 i t e u s. Theband from t liesemimembranosusis sometimes de-scribed as the pop-liteal ligament, andthe whole sheet asthe posterior liga-ment of is everywhere thicknessto resist the irrup-tion of abscessesfrom the poplitealspace into the joint,but pus has beenknown to burrowfrom the sjnovialcavity outward be-low the poplitealligament. Thisposterior sheet of-fers the principalobstacle in con-tracted knee, wheuassociated withfibrous is probablyowing to the factthat it contains butlittle elastic tissue,and an increase ofthe white fibrouselements produces,as elsewhere in thebody, a certainamount of contrac-tion. The synovialmembrane is verjextensive, passingbeyond tlie articu. FK;. 3085.—Posterior Surface of the Knee-joint. (Sappey.) 1, 1, Internal lateralligament; 2. tendon of the seiiiiiiieni-branosus: 3, its anterif>r or reileeted por-tion; 4, its middle portion altaeiied to theposterior pan of tiie internal tulerosiiy ofthe tibia. From this middle iioitioii twoexpansions ; one reaelies Ilie lowerpart of tile internal tuherosit\. theotlier iscontinuous with the aponeurosis of thepoplitens; ), jtoslerior i>ortion of the ten-don of the seiiijinemiirauosus. It forms aposterior liKantent directed upward andoutward, to be inserted upon the externalcondyle: 6,7, fibres of this tendon directedvertically upward: s. tendon of the ad-ductor matriius: H. leicion of the interualhead of ttie L^asiroeuemins: 10. oritleeoften found in the fibrous capsule over theinternal condyle; 11, external lateral liga-ment; 12. tendon o
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