Lesser trochanter

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Left hip-joint, opened by removing the floor of the acetabulum from within the pelvis. |- style="text-align: center;" class="hiddenStructure" | colspan="2" |
|- style="text-align: center; line-height: 1;" class="hiddenStructure" | colspan="2" |Upper extremity of right femur viewed from behind and above. |- class="hiddenStructure" |Latin |colspan="2"|trochanter minor |- class="hiddenStructure" | |colspan="2"|[subject #59 ] |- class="hiddenStructure" |Origins |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |Insertions |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |Articulations |colspan="2"| |- class="hiddenStructure" |MeSH |colspan="2"|[] |- class="hiddenStructure" |Dorlands/Elsevier |colspan="2"|[/] |} The Lesser Trochanter (small trochanter) of the femur is a conical eminence, which varies in size in different subjects; it projects from the lower and back part of the base of the neck.
From its apex three well-marked borders extend; two of these are above—a medial continuous with the lower border of the neck, a lateral with the intertrochanteric crest; the inferior border is continuous with the middle division of the linea aspera.
The summit of the trochanter is rough, and gives insertion to the tendon of the Psoas major.

External links
SUNY Figs [13:01-11]

Bone: Lesser trochanter

Human Bones - [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit]
VERTEBRAL COLUMN: vertebrae (cervical - atlas - axis | thoracic | lumbar) | sacrum | coccyx
THORAX: sternum | rib
cranial bones of SKULL: occipital | parietal | frontal | temporal | sphenoid | ethmoid
facial bones of SKULL nasal | maxilla | lacrimal | zygomatic | palatine | inferior nasal conchae | vomer | mandible | hyoid
UPPER EXTREMITY: clavicle | scapula | humerus | ulna | radius
carpus (scaphoid | lunate bone | triquetral | pisiform | trapezium | trapezoid | capitate | hamate) | metacarpals | phalanges (prox | int | dist)
LOWER EXTREMITY: pelvis (ilium, ischium, pubis, acetabulum) | femur (greater trochanter - lesser trochanter - linea aspera) | patella | fibula | tibia
tarsus (calcaneus | talus | navicular | cuneiform | cuboid ) | metatarsals | phalanges (prox | int | dist)
OSSICLES: malleus | incus | stapes

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