Transverse acetabular ligament

Transverse acetabular ligament
Left hip-joint, opened by removing the floor of the acetabulum from within the pelvis. (Trans. ligament labeled at center.)
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Latinligamentum transversum acetabuli
TA98A03.6.07.009
TA21881
FMA43518
Anatomical terminology

The transverse acetabular ligament (transverse ligament or Tunstall’s ligament[citation needed]) bridges the acetabular notch, creating the a foramen (through which blood vessels and nerves pass into the joint cavity). The ligament is one of the sites of attachment of the ligament of head of femur.: 789 

Some sources consider the transverse acetabular ligament as the part of the acetabular labrum over the acetabular notch,: 786  while another states that the labrum attaches onto the ligament.

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