The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden].

  • William Cheselden
Date:
1732
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Credit: The anatomy of the human body / [William Cheselden]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Os S PHENOIDES, is of a very irregular fi- Tab. iil. gure; it is feated in the middle of the bafis of ** the fcull, bounded by the Os Frontis, Ethmoides, Vomer ‘Occipitis, Maxillaz Superioris, Offa Pa- rietalia, Palati, Malarum, Temporum, and Pe- trofa, which are parts of the former bones. In pap, viii. ; its infide next the brain is a cavity, named Sella 18. Turcica, which is bounded by four procefies, | called Clinoides,; and oppofite to the Sella Tur- cica is a procefs which makes part of the Septum Narium. On the outfide of the fcull adjoining to the upper jaw, are two proceffes of this bone on each fide, named Pterygoides, from which arife Tab. iy. ~ one on each fide near the palate, having no name; B. !9- over which are reflected the tendons “of the Pre- rygoftaphylini Externi mufcles; and nearer to- wards the Occiput, between'thefe and the Styloid proceffes of the Offa Petrofa , arife ‘two more {mall rugged proceffes ; and under the Sella Tar- cica in this bone, is a Sinus or two which open into the nofe, and in fome fculls only fuch a fpon- ey fubftance as is feen in the ends of fome of the bones. At the inftde of the bafis of the two an- terior clinoid proceffes’ are two round holes, which are the firft Foramina of the fcull; thro’ thefe the optick nerves pafs; almoft under thefe, towards the Sides of the fcull, are two irregular flits, named Foramina Lacera, or the fecond Fo- ramina of the fcull, through which pafs nerves’ and blood-veffels into the orbits of the eyes; and under thefe towards the Occiput are two round holes, which are the third Foramina, through which pafs nerves to the face. About half an inch Cbs nearer
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