A goose foot that is!

This afternoon no one was feeling too keen on staying during open anatomy lab, so lucky me I got to do a little dissecting of my own! (YAY)

Today I started working on a knee joint prosection, which is kind of a tricky dissection to keep everything looking pretty and intact, but I’m enjoying the challenge. So, what is the gooses foot all about ?

Well, on the medial side of your knee, you have a conjoint tendon made up of the tendons from 3 muscles…PT students remember which 3?

From anterior to posterior:

Sartorius

Gracilis

Semitendinosus

Amazingly, instead of naming after themselves (as scientists are wont to do)… some anatomist decided it looked like a goose foot and named it the “Pes Anserine” which literally means “Goose Foot”