红毛猩猩和印度象的股骨头韧带。

Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.

Yale J Biol Med. 1988 Sep-Oct;61(5):383-8.

A literature search revealed that for over 100 years there has been a consensus that the ligament of the head of the femur (LHF) is absent in the orangutan and elephant. A dissection of the hip joints of an adult orangutan and an adult Indian elephant exposed, in each joint, a robust LHF that is functionally important. These LHFs are easily overlooked during a cursory examination of the hip joints because of the way they differ from the human LHF.

文献检索显示，100多年来人们一直认为，红毛猩猩和大象没有股骨头上的韧带（LHF）。对一只成年红毛猩猩和一只成年印度象的髋关节进行解剖后发现，每个关节中都有一条粗壮且功能重要的LHF。由于这些LHF与人类LHF不同，在对髋关节进行粗略检查时很容易被忽视。