Description
The body of ilium is the inferiorly located, thick, irregularly shaped part of the bone. It is one of the two parts of the ilium, the other being the ala of ilium. It fuses with the body of ischium and the superior pubic ramus and forms the posterosuperior two fifths of the acetabulum.
Overall, the ilium consists of:
—three surfaces; gluteal, sacropelvic, and iliac fossa;
—three borders; anterior, posterior, and medial.
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