Joints & ligaments
Arcuate popliteal ligament
Ligamentum popliteum arcuatum
- System
- Joints & ligaments
- Regions
- Lower limb
- Side
- Left and right
- Part of
- Knee joint
DescriptionUnreviewed
The arcuate popliteal ligament is an extracapsular ligament of the knee.
It is Y-shaped and is attached to the posterior portion of the head of the fibula.
From there it goes to its two insertions; the medial one goes over popliteus muscle and blends with the oblique popliteal ligament, the lateral one to the Lateral epicondyle of the femur and blends there with the lateral head of gastrocnemius muscle.
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Names
- Latin
- Ligamentum popliteum arcuatum
- English
- Arcuate popliteal ligament
- French
- Ligament poplité arqué
- Spanish
- Ligamento poplíteo arqueado
- Portuguese
- Ligamento poplíteo arqueado
In the same group
- Anterior cruciate ligament
- Anterior meniscotibial ligament (Lateral meniscus)
- Anterior meniscotibial ligament (Medial meniscus)
- Articular capsule of knee joint
- Deep part of tibial collateral ligament
- Fibular collateral ligament
- Infrapatellar fat pad
- Lateral meniscus
- Medial meniscus
- Meniscopatellar ligament
- Oblique popliteal ligament
- Popliteofibular ligament
- Posterior cruciate ligament
- Posterior meniscotibial ligament (Lateral meniscus)
- Posterior meniscotibial ligament (Medial meniscus)
- Superficial part of tibial collateral ligament
- Transverse ligament of knee