intertrchanteric line

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Introduction

A line separating the neck & shaft of the femur anteriorly.

It passes from the greater to lesser trochanter of the femur & continues into the medial lip of the linea aspera.

More general terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.