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Musculoskeletal System > Skeleton > Joints > Ligaments, Articular > Posterior Cruciate Ligament
Musculoskeletal System > Ligaments > Ligaments, Articular > Posterior Cruciate Ligament
Tissues > Connective Tissue > Ligaments > Ligaments, Articular > Posterior Cruciate Ligament

Preferred term

Posterior Cruciate Ligament  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cruciate Ligament, Posterior
  • Cruciate Ligaments, Posterior
  • Ligament, Posterior Cruciate
  • Ligaments, Posterior Cruciate
  • Posterior Cruciate Ligaments

Note

  • a ligament of the knee

Scope note

  • A strong ligament of the knee that originates from the anterolateral surface of the medial condyle of the femur, passes posteriorly and inferiorly between the condyles, and attaches to the posterior intercondylar area of the tibia.

History note

  • 91

In other languages

  • takaristiside

    Finnish

  • lig. cruc. post.
  • lig. cruciatum post.
  • lig. cruciatum posterius
  • ligamentum cruciatum posterius
  • polven takaristiside
  • Bakre korsband

    Swedish

  • Korsband, bakre

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016119

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