puboischiofemoralis
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pubo- + ischiofemoralis.
Noun
[edit]puboischiofemoralis
- A muscle that extends from the pubis to the femur in some reptiles
- 2015 December 24, “A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- 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.