The affinity of the Gibbons to the Catarrhines is proved by the presence of distinct but small ischial callosities.
The ischial callosities are more pronounced than in the Macaques.
In them the arch is a mere slot, and being formed by the ischium alone, merits the name of the ischial arch.
The portion of the bone which connects the ilium to the region occupied by the cotyloid cavity is extremely narrow; posteriorly, the bone enlarges again to form the ischial and pubic portions.
The ischial tuberosities are large in the old world monkeys.
At its posterior end externally it bears a rather prominent roughened =ischial tuberosity= (fig.
The acetabulum is deep and the obturator foramen large, and there is frequently a well-marked ischial tuberosity.
In these animals the pubis does not take part in the formation of the acetabulum, and the ischium bears on its outer side a well-marked ischial tuberosity.
The ischial tuberosity, which in the extended position of the limb is overlapped by the lower margin of the gluteus maximus muscle, and is therefore not easily located with precision.
The lower end of the splint is suspended, and the counter-extension is obtained by pressing the ring against the ischial tuberosity.
If a line is drawn from the anterior superior iliac spine to the most prominent part of the ischial tuberosity, it just touches the tip of the great trochanter.
The splint which has been found most generally useful is the Thomas' knee splint, the ring of which rests against the ischial tuberosity.
The ends of the ischial bones are much everted to support the callosities.
There are ischial callosities, but no cheek-pouches among the Langurs, though small ones have been described in certain of the Guerezas (Colobus).
These animals have no callosities over the ischial (or buttock) bones, and no cheek-pouches.
In these {151}Monkeys there are no cheek-pouches, norischial callosities.
The palæontologist might tell us if some such case of ischial approximation by natural mechanical causes has not caused the probable extinction of whole genera of vertebrates.
The gibbon exhibits this iliac expansion through the sitting posture which developed his ischial callosities.
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