iliac furrow

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iliac furrow (plural iliac furrows)

  1. (anatomy) The visible indentation above an iliac crest and beneath the navel, usually only visible on physically fit people.
    Apollo's belt, the iliac furrow, is also known as an athlete's girdle or Adonis belt.
    His physique is like a Roman god with very pronounced iliac furrows or Apollo's belt.
    • 2021, Sergey Y. Turin, Sammy Sinno, “BodyBanking Six-Pack: Enhancing Abdominals with Lipocyte Extraction, Grafting, and Molding” (chapter 37), in Douglas S. Steinbrech, editor, Male Aesthetic Plastic Surgery‎[1], Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag KG, →DOI, →ISBN, Part III: Body Surgery, pages 448–449:
      The inferolateral edge of the oblique muscles rolling over to the inguinal ligament produces a V-shaped taper running from the iliac crest to the pubis, known as the iliac furrow, Apollo’s or Adonis’s belt.

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