| Dimples of venus lateral lumbar fossa | |
|---|---|
.jpg) The lower back of a sitting woman, with the dimples of Venus indicated by the two arrows | |
 The dimples of Venus exemplified in a painting by Gustave Courbet | |
| Details | |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | fossae lumbales laterales[1] |
| TA2 | 273 |
| FMA | 20209 |
| Anatomical terminology | |
The dimples of Venus (also known as back dimples, Duffy Dimples, butt dimples or Veneral dimples) are sagittally symmetrical indentations sometimes visible on the human lower back, just superior to the gluteal cleft. They are directly superficial to the two sacroiliac joints, the sites where the sacrum attaches to the ilium of the pelvis. An imaginary line joining both dimples of Venus passes over the spinous process of the second sacral vertebra.[2]
- ^ Kollmann, D. Julius (1910). Plastische anatomie des menschlichen körpers für künstler und freunde der kunst. Leipzig: Veit & Comp. pp. 50, 398.
- ^ Moore, Keith (2005). Clinically Oriented Anatomy (5th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 534. ISBN 0781736390.