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adductor angle anticus aorta aponeurosis arch arises artery articulation attached base beneath body branches canal carotid carpi cartilage cavity cells cervical clavicle coccyx commencement concave condyle convex cord deep surface digitorum divides dorsal dorsi duct dura mater extensor external extremity fascia fasciculi femoral fibres fibrous filaments fissure flexor longus foramen fossa front ganglion gland groove hepatic humerus iliac inferior inserted integument internal lateral internal surface interosseous ischium lateral ligament layer levator liver lobules longitudinal lower jaw lumbar lymphatic meatus metacarpal bone middle mucous membrane muscle muscular nasal neck oblique obturator occipital occipital bone orbit palate papillæ passes pelvis peritoneum plexus pollicis portion posterior border posterior surface posticus Poupart's ligament pterygoid rectus ribs ridge sacrum scapula sheath situated sphenoid spinous process superficial surface superior maxillary synovial membrane temporal tendon termination thin tibia tissue transversalis transverse processes tubercle tuberosity ulna vein vena ventricle vertebræ vertebral column vessels and nerves
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Page 5 - OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY, in reference to the Process of Parturition. A new and enlarged edition, thoroughly revised by the Author. With Additions by WV KEATING...
Page 163 - OCCIPITO-FRONTALIS is a broad musculo-aponeurotic layer, which covers the whole of the side of the vertex of the skull, from the occiput to the eyebrow. It arises by tendinous fibres from the outer two-thirds of the superior curved line of the occipital, and from the mastoid portion of the temporal bone. Its insertion takes place by means of the blending of the fibres of its anterior portion with those of the orbicularis palpebrarum, corrugator supercilii, levator labii superioris aloeque nasi, and...
Page 465 - It then pierces the cremaster muscle and accompanies the spermatic cord in the male, and the round ligament in the female, to be distributed to the integument of the scrotum or external labium.
Page 208 - ... pubis. The external abdominal ring gives passage to the spermatic cord in the male and round ligament in the female : they are both invested in their passage through it by a thin fascia derived from the edges of the ring, and called inter-columnar fascia, or fascia spermatica.
Page 92 - At the bottom of the cup, and communicating with the notch, is a deep and circular pit (fundus acetabuli), which lodges a mass of fat, and gives attachment to the broad extremity of the ligamentum teres. The obturator or thyroid foramen is a large...
Page 3 - THE SIMPLE TREATMENT OF DISEASE; deduced from the Methods of Expectancy and Revulsion. 18mo. cloth, 4s. DR. GUY. HOOPER'S PHYSICIAN'S VADE-MECUM; OR, MANUAL OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. New Edition, considerably enlarged, and rewritten. Foolscap 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d. GUY'S HOSPITAL REPORTS. Third Series.
Page 189 - The rectus capitis anterior major arises from the anterior tubercles of the transverse processes of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae...
Page 189 - MAJOR, broad and thick above, and narrow and pointed below, arises from the anterior tubercles of the transverse processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae, and is inserted into the basilar process of the occipital bone.
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Page 578 - Eustachian valve, and through the foramen male into the left auricle. From the left auricle it passes into the left ventricle, and from the left ventricle into the aorta, whence it is distributed, by means of the carotid and subclavian arteries, principally to the head and upper extremities.