Help with two A&P I questions

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Hi

Can anyone please help me with this:

1. With your hands on your hips , you can feel a point of the pelvis protuding out anteriorly just above your thigh. Name this bone marking.

2. Name the bones of the os coxae that articulate anteriorly.

Kindly help at the earliest.

Thanks in advance.

TRINI_RN

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Hi

Can anyone please help me with this:

1. With your hands on your hips , you can feel a point of the pelvis protuding out anteriorly just above your thigh. Name this bone marking.

2. Name the bones of the os coxae that articulate anteriorly.

Kindly help at the earliest.

Thanks in advance.

Ok, I'll spot you #1. I believe that would be the Anterior Superior Iliac Spine.

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Hi

Can anyone please help me with this:

1. With your hands on your hips , you can feel a point of the pelvis protuding out anteriorly just above your thigh. Name this bone marking.

2. Name the bones of the os coxae that articulate anteriorly.

Kindly help at the earliest.

Thanks in advance.

(2) The os coxae is called the innominate bone. Actually the ossa coxae is the ilium, ischium and pubis. These fuse together and form the os coxae. Consists of the sacurm posteriorly and the pubis symphysis anteriorly.

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