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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    the'eyes, whofe anterior and inner parts they help. to compofe s and between each of them and the- upper Jaw is a Foramen as large’ ‘as. a goofe quill, Tab. tii. into which the Punéta Lacrymalia lead, to carry ii off any ‘fuperfluous ‘moifture from the. eyes into. the nofe. Ossa PLANA, a are thin Ppa bones feated Tab. iii. immediately beyond the foregoing bones, : in the #8: orbits of the eyes, and are near thrice as big. They are indeed, but fmooth furfaces of ag Os Spongiofum, and not diftinct bones. | MaxILLa SuPERIOR, is always deferibed Tab. iii. fingle, though it is “manifeftly divided by a fu-?° ture which Is sere bae ever wholly obliterated. Ie runs up with two proceffes to the Os Frontis be- tween the Offa Nafi and Ungues,, and another, which joins to the cartilage of the Septum Nafi. Its upper and outward parts make the lower parts of the orbits of the eyes; its lower fide, all that part of the face under the checks, eyes, and nofe to the mouth, and two thirds of the roof of the mouth. | A little below the orbits of the eyes, in pap. iii. this bone, are two holes, and behind the Dentes 21. Inciferes.one more, which divides into two, as it opens into the nofe, one on each fide the Septum Nafi. Between the pofterior erinding-teeth and the orbits of the eyes are two great Sinufes, cal- led Antra Maxillae Superioris:' and in the lower edge of this jaw are the Alveoli, or fockets for the teeth. Part of the fides of thefe cavities, that lie next the nofe, are only membranes which make the cavities like drums, perhaps to give a grave found to the voice when we Jet pare of it C 3 through
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