Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
triangle of Hes·sel·bach Pronunciation:
-'hes-&l-"bäk Function:
noun : an area of the abdominal wall bounded laterally bythe inferior epigastric artery, medially by the margin of the rectus muscle, and below by the inguinal ligament called also
Hesselbach's triangle Hesáselábach /'hes-&l-"bäk,/ Franz Kaspar (1759–1816), German surgeon and anatomist. Hesselbach served as professor of anatomy and surgery at Würzburg, Germany. In1806 he published an anatomical-surgical treatise on the origin of hernias which included a description of the triangle of Hesselbach.
