Its anterior surface presents a few small apertures, for the passage of nutrient vessels.

The shaft is supplied in its middle third by a large nutrient vessel from the fibular artery.

Kes answered, "Because increased pressure in neural tissue will collapse the nutrient vessels, causing all functions of the cells to cease."

It consists of strong, flattened fibers, which cross the acetabular notch, and convert it into a foramen through which the nutrient vessels enter the joint.

The notch is converted into a foramen by the transverse acetabular ligament; through the foramen nutrient vessels and nerves enter the joint.