{{Short description|Shallow grooves in the abdomen running from the iliac crest to the pubis}} {{Multiple image|total_width=420|align=right|direction=horizontal|caption_align=center|image_style=border: none;|image_gap=8|image1=Braus 1921 102.png|caption1=Visible Apollo's belt|image2=Roman Statue of Apollo.jpg|caption2=Apollo (the "Adonis" of Centocelle), Roman after a Greek original (Ashmolean Museum)}} 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 each groove is formed by the inguinal ligament.<ref name="medicalnewstoday">{{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}}</ref> The visibility of the belt is caused by a low body fat percentage, rather than the creation of new muscle.<ref name="medicalnewstoday" />
The "iliac furrow" is not a currently defined term in ''Terminologia Anatomica'', though it has been used as a formal anatomical term in the past.<ref name="grays">{{Cite book|last1=Gray |first1=Henry|author-link1=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}}</ref> The term is, however, encountered in modern art history descriptions.<ref name="perseus">{{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}}</ref><ref name="polykleitos">{{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}}</ref>
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