The posterior aorta coming from the heart passes backward and gives rise to the internal iliac arteries, and of these the umbilical arteries are branches.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
Friday, Feb 13th,-considerable inflammation over the left iliac crest, in the centre of which, a spot as large as the thumb nail, looks gangrenous.
"Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society"
Joseph Bradford Cox
Muscular action occasionally produces separation of the epiphyses-for example, the anterior superior iliac spine, the small trochanter of the femur, or the upper end of the fibula.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson