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===Walls=== To help define the boundaries, these canals are often further approximated as boxes with six sides. Not including the two rings, the remaining four sides are usually called the "anterior wall", "inferior wall ("floor")", "superior wall ("roof")", and "posterior wall".<ref name="isbn0-443-06612-4">{{cite book |author1=Adam Mitchell |author2=Drake, Richard |author3=Gray, Henry David |author4=Wayne Vogl |title=Gray's anatomy for students |publisher=Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone |year=2005 |pages=260 |isbn=0-443-06612-4 }}</ref> These consist of the following: {| class="wikitable" | || '''superior wall (roof):'''<br> Medial crus of aponeurosis of external oblique<br>Musculoaponeurotic arches of internal oblique and transverse abdominal<br>Transversalis fascia<br>[[conjoint tendon]] |- | '''anterior wall:'''<br>[[aponeurosis]] of [[external oblique]]<br>fleshy part of internal oblique (lateral third of canal only)<ref name="isbn0-7817-3639-0">{{cite book |author1=Dalley, Arthur F. |author2=Moore, Keith L. |title=Clinically oriented anatomy |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |location=Hagerstown, MD |year=2006 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/clinicallyorient00moor_1/page/217 217] |isbn=0-7817-3639-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/clinicallyorient00moor_1/page/217 }}</ref><br>[[superficial inguinal ring]] (medial third of canal only)<ref name="isbn0-7817-4255-2">{{cite book |author1=Arthur F., II Dalley |author2=Anne M. R. Agur |title=Grant's Atlas of Anatomy |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |location=Hagerstown, MD |year= 2005|pages=102 |isbn=0-7817-4255-2 }}</ref> || ''(inguinal canal)'' || '''posterior wall:'''<br>[[transversalis fascia]]<br>[[conjoint tendon]] ([[Inguinal falx]], reflected part of inguinal ligament, medial third of canal only)<ref name="isbn0-7817-4255-2"/><br>[[deep inguinal ring]] (lateral third of canal only)<ref name="isbn0-7817-4255-2"/> |- | || '''inferior wall (floor):'''<br>[[inguinal ligament]]<br>[[lacunar ligament]] (medial third of canal only)<ref name="isbn0-7817-4255-2"/><br>[[iliopubic tract]] (lateral third of canal only)<ref name="isbn0-7817-3639-0"/> || |}
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