Apollo's belt

{{Short description|Shallow grooves in the abdomen running from the iliac crest to the pubis}}

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The Apollo's belt, also known as Adonis belt, or iliac furrows, is a part of the human anatomy referring to the two shallow grooves of the human abdomen running from the iliac crest (hip bone) to the pubis.

The shape of the grooves are formed by the inguinal ligament.{{Cite web |date=2017-09-27 |title=How to get an Adonis belt: Home and gym exercises |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319545 |publisher=Medical News Today |access-date=2023-08-25}} The visibility of the belt is caused by a low body fat percentage, rather than the creation of new muscle.

The term "iliac furrow" does not appear in any of the abstracts indexed by PubMed.{{Cite web|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22iliac+furrow%22|title=iliac furrow: search results|publisher=PubMed|access-date=2023-08-25|df=mdy-all}} It is not a currently defined term in Terminologia Anatomica, though it has been used as a formal anatomical term in the past.{{Cite book|last=Gray |first=Henry|author-link=Henry Gray|url=https://archive.org/details/graysanatomy1924/page/1328/mode/1up|title=Anatomy of the Human Body|last2=Lewis|first2=Warren Harmon|author-link2=Warren Harmon Lewis|publisher=Lea & Febiger|year=1924|edition={{Ordinal|21|sup=yes}}|location=Philadelphia and New York City|page=1328|language=en|format=PDF|access-date=2024-09-27|df=mdy-all}} The term is, however, encountered in modern art history descriptions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0003:entry=no.78|title=78. 01.8020 CUP from Orvieto PLATE XL|last1=Caskey|first1=L. D.|last2=Beazley|first2=J. D.|author-link2=John Beazley|work=Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|publisher=Perseus Project|access-date=2023-08-25|df=mdy-all}}{{Cite book|title=Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition|editor-last1=Fowler|editor-first1=Barbara Hughes|editor-last2=Moon|editor-first2=Warren G.|year=1995|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-14310-7}}