Picture from web page 203 of "Anatomy, descriptive and surgical" (1887)

Picture from web page 203 of "Anatomy, descriptive and surgical" (1887)

Identifier: anatomydescripti1887grey
Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Yr: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Grey, Henry, 1825-1861 Choose, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919, ed Eager, William W. (William Williams), b. 1837
Topics: Human anatomy Anatomy
Writer: Philadelphia : Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Drugs
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Information Commons and Harvard Medical Faculty


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t. ^&A Sup -Max XI l° Vomer. The Inferior Maxillary Bone. The Inferior Maxillary Bone, the most important and strongest bone of the face, servesfor the reception of the decrease tooth. It consists of a curved horizontal portion, thebody, and two perpendicular parts, the rami, which be a part of the again a part of thebody almost at proper angles. The Horizontal Portion, or physique (Fig. 170), is convex in its common define,and curved considerably like a horseshoe. It presents for examination two surfacesand two borders. The exterior floor is convex backward and forward, concave fromabove downward. Within the median line is a vertical ridge, the symphysis, which 198 THE SKELETON. extends from the higher to the decrease border of the bone, and signifies the purpose ofjunction of the 2 items of which the bone consists at an early interval of life.The decrease a part of the ridge terminates in a outstanding triangular eminence, themental course of [from mentum, the chin, not mens, the thoughts. The massive develop- Fig. 170. OV,

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Gjoove Joi» faeutf. artV Inferior Maxillary Bone, outer floor, facet view. —Ajtu^e ment of the chin may be very distinctive of man. The decrease animals lack a chin, prop-erly so known as]. On both facet of the symphysis, just under the cavities for theincisor tooth, is a melancholy, the incisive fossa, for the attachment of the Levator Fig. 171. ,# Te*&*.


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