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n. - Any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones.

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  • From these points fleshy fibers succeed, and end in an aponeurosis, which is inserted into the sides and under surface of the crus clitoridis.
  • The two unite at an acute angle, and spread into an aponeurosis which is prolonged downward on the anterior surface of the muscle, and from this the muscular fibers arise.
  • D. External oblique muscle; d, Fig. 2, its aponeurosis.
  • Plantar aponeurosis, wounds of the treatment of necrosed
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