Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy
Dissection of anterior aspect of vertebral column
Lumbar region.
Image #221-3
KEYWORDS: Lumbar region, Vasculature, Vertebral column.
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Dissection of anterior aspect of vertebral column
Lumbar region.
The left hip bone,the psoas major and the quadratus lumborum muscles have been removed.
- Lumbar part of diaphragm
- Lateral arcuate ligament
- Rib XII
- Lumbar vein III
- Ganglion of sympathetic trunk
- Body of vertebra L. III (pointer on anterior longitudinal ligament)
- Intervertebral disc L. III - IV
- Lumbar artery IV
- Vena cava inferior (cut off)
- Psoas major muscle
- Iliacus muscle
- Iliac crest
- Genitofemoral nerve
- Common left iliac vein
- Promontory
- Median sacral artery
- Hemiazygos vein
- Psoas major muscle
- Ascending lumbar vein
- Ramus communicans
- Sympathetic trunk
- Transverse process of vertebra L. III
- Lumbar plexus
- Obturator nerve
- Lateral femoral cutaneus nerve
- Femoral nerve
- Iliolumbar artery
- Lateral part sacrum
- Iliolumbar artery
- Lumbosacral trunk