Adjective
Pertaining to ancient Ilium, or Troy.
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery.
See Ileac, 1.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe patients who received the VBX Stent Grafts presented with iliac occlusive disease and also complex aortic aneurysms treated with branched aortic endograft (BEVAR). Source: Internet
The gluteus maximus has its origin between (and around) the iliac crest and the coccyx from where one part radiates into the iliotibial tract and the other stretches down to the gluteal tuberosity under the greater trochanter. Source: Internet
The lower rectum to the anal canal above the pectinate line drain to the internal iliac nodes. citation The anal canal below the pectinate line drains into the superficial inguinal nodes. Source: Internet
The lack of feeling in the patient's leg was a result of a distended sigmoid colon, which had become overfilled with faeces and had begun to block the iliac artery, through which blood for the legs flows. Source: Internet
The pelvis and legs get their blood from the common iliac arteries. Source: Internet