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===== [[Summary Article|'''SUMMARY''']] =====
1. The non-articulating convexity of the head is excavated into a pit (the fovea) for attachment of the ligamentum teres.
<br/>2. The other end of the ligamentum teres is attached to the transverse ligament.  
<br/>3. The fibrous capsule is strengthened by 3 ligaments - ilio-femoral, ischio-femoral (<i>weakest ligament)</i>, pubo-femoral. 
<br/>4. These ligaments are 'unwound' if the femur is flexed &amp; externally rotated. 
<br/><i>5. Blood supply - nutrient arteries from the trochanteric anastamosis which travel along the NOF, under the retinacular fibres &amp; artery within the ligamentum teres (usually atrophied by age 7). </i>
<br/><i>6. Nerve supply - branches of the femoral n., sciatic n. &amp; obturator n.</i>
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<br/><i>[[Image:Femur_head.png]]</i>
<br/><b>Image: </b>Gray, Henry. <i>Anatomy of the Human Body.</i> Philadelphia: Lea &amp; Febiger, 1918; Bartleby.com, 2000. [https://www.bartleby.com/107/ www.bartleby.com/107/] [Accessed 14 Apr. 2019]. 


==Reference(s)==
R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
<br/>Gray, H., Carter, H.V. and Davidson, G. (2017). Gray’s anatomy. London: Arcturus.

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[[Category:Lower Limb]]
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