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Anatomy: name of the crease between leg and groin

Cheran Ilango  Follow

It also called inguinal crease and love line ...it denotes the inguinal canal and attachment of inguinal ligament ..also it is the junction of abdomen and thigh in either side

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Dahny Patel  Follow

That crease is simply called the crease of the groin.[See: fig.1 of Mallouris et al. (2012).]

Other names for this crease, as also indicated in the same paper include Holden's crease and fold of the groin

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Mallouris, A., Yiacoumettis, A., Thomaidis, V., Karayiannakis, A., Simopoulos, C., Kakagia, D., & Tsaroucha, A. K. (2012). A record of skin creases and folds. European Journal of Plastic Surgery, 35(12), 847-854. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-012-0774-3

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