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Acetabular notch
Right hip bone. External surface (acetabular notch visible near center, inside blue line).
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Identifiers
Latin	incisura acetabuli
TA98	A02.5.01.005
TA2	1311
FMA	16944
Anatomical terms of bone[edit on Wikidata]

The acetabular notch is a deep notch in the inferior portion of the rim of the acetabulum. It is bridged by the transverse acetabular ligament, converting it into a foramen (through which nerves and vessels (including the acetabular notch of obturator artery) pass into the hip joint cavity). It is continuous with space of the acetabular fossa. The lunate surface of acetabulum is discontinued opposite the notch.

The ligament of the head of the femur attaches at the margins of the notch. The anterior margin of the acetabular notch presents a posterior obturator tubercle onto which the obturator membrane attaches.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 237 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

1. ^ Standring, Susan (2020). Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice (42th ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-7020-7707-4. OCLC 1201341621.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. Moore, Keith L.; Dalley, Arthur F.; Agur, Anne M. R. (2018). Clinically Oriented Anatomy (8th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. p. 786. ISBN 978-1-4963-4721-3.

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