puboischiofemoralis

noun

A muscle that extends from the pubis to the femur in some reptiles

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Meanings

noun
  1. A muscle that extends from the pubis to the femur in some reptiles

    In the basal ornithischian Lesothosaurus, Maidment and Barrett (2011) [61 ] reconstructed two slips of the femoral adductor musculature as originating on the ventral and dorsal edges of the ischial shaft, and placed the insertion of the puboischiofemoralis externus between them.

    2015 December 24, “A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From pubo- + ischiofemoralis.

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