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  •   It has a thin white line down the center where the muscles of both sides attach called the linea alba.

    What Hands Can Do 2008

  • It has a thin white line down the center where the muscles of both sides attach called the linea alba.

    What Hands Can Do 2008

  • At the linea semilunaris, the tendon of the internal oblique is described as dividing into two layers, which passing, one before and the other behind the rectus abdominis, thus enclose this muscle in a sheath, after which they are inserted into the linea alba, G.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The fleshy fibres of the muscle, A, after forming the lateral wall of the abdomen, descend to the level of C, the iliac spinous process, and here give off the inguinal part of their broad tendon, a. The fibres of this part of the tendon descend obliquely downwards and forwards to become inserted at the median line of the abdomen into the linea alba, B

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The tendon of the external oblique, d, passes altogether in front of the rectus; that of the internal oblique is split opposite the linea semilunaris into two layers, which enclose the rectus between them as they pass to be inserted into the linea alba.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • At the lateral margin of the Rectus, the aponeurosis of the Obliquus internus divides into two lamellæ, one of which passes in front of the Rectus, blending with the aponeurosis of the Obliquus externus, the other, behind it, blending with the aponeurosis of the Transversus, and these, joining again at the medial border of the Rectus, are inserted into the linea alba.

    IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen 1918

  • —The lineæ semilunares are two curved tendinous lines placed one on either side of the linea alba.

    IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen 1918

  • Fibers may spring from the lower part of the linea alba.

    IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen 1918

  • Above, it articulates with the lower end of the body, and on the front of each superior angle presents a facet for part of the cartilage of the seventh rib; below, by its pointed extremity, it gives attachment to the linea alba.

    II. Osteology. 4a. The Sternum 1918

  • In the middle line of the front of the abdomen is a shallow furrow which extends from the junction between the body of the sternum with the xiphoid process to a short distance below the umbilicus; it corresponds to the linea alba.

    XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 7. Surface Anatomy of the Abdomen 1918

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