An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia : being the substance of the course of lectures delivered at the Royal college of surgeons of England in 1870 / By William Henry Flower.

Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899.

Date:: 1870

Credit: An introduction to the osteology of the Mammalia : being the substance of the course of lectures delivered at the Royal college of surgeons of England in 1870 / By William Henry Flower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$first pair of sternal ribs close to its apex. The succeeding pieces gradually widen, the posterior segments of the meso- sternum being square, flat, and rather massive (especially in the Giraffe); they are hollowed at the middle of their lateral borders. The xiphisternum is thin and flat. Fig. 35.— Sternum and sternal ribs of the Ked Deer (CV;i/«i c-la/>hiis), J J>s prestenmm; tiis mesosternum ; xs xiphisternum. Fig. 36. — Sternum of the Pig {Sus scr^/h). J : />s presternum ; meso- sternum ; xs xiphisternum. In the Pig (Fig. 36) and Hippopotamus the presternum is compressed and keeled; the articular facets for the first pair of ribs are close together on its upper surface ; but the mesosternum is broad and flat, the first segment being$