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Extensor pollicis et indicis communis

list of anatomical variations

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=To do=
 * Add history to medial arcuate ligament.
 * Add arches of Haller to history section of medial and lateral arcuate ligament.
 * Add Galen reference to history for levator ani.
 * Add damage to levator ani during childbirth and involvement in incontinence and prolapse.

The arcuate ligaments were described from animal dissections by Galen in his Rome lectures of AD 177, collected in 'De Anatomicus Administrationibus'. Together with the lateral arcuate ligament this structure forms the 'Arches of Haller'.