Ligaments : their nature and morphology / by John Bland Sutton.
- Sutton, John Bland.
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Ligaments : their nature and morphology / by John Bland Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![upper end by a broad band of fibrous tissue, converting i'into a tunnel. Injhe_mole as my friend M, AusUn Freeman* demonstrated'to me, the tend^r^sjn a most perfect osseous tunnel. An^n7 other examples of the interchangeably of fibrous and osseous tissues, the following may be briefly referred to here:— , iU t. . In many_ carnivorous mammals and a few others, the tentorium cerebelli is replaced by a plate of bone. Among reptilians, some turtles present a curious ano- maly, for the temporal fascia, so conspicuous in man, is in these animals represented by a layer of stfi.ut.bone This condition is also found in a certain frog named Pelobates. The only known mammal in which this arrange- ment exists is a singular specimen of rodent from Africa named Lophiomys. The pillars of man's external abdominal ring, in that they consist chiefly of fibrous tissue, agree with the majority of mammals, yet in those singular groups, the Ornitho- delphia and Didelphia, the internal pillar is directly ossified to form the marsupial bone. On the other hand, bones in man which as a rule are well-formed, may be replaced by fibrous tissue. Thus the fibula has been represented by ligament, and numerous cases are on record of the shaft of the first rib in man being merely a fibrous band extending to the sternum. * Journal of Anatomy] and Physiology, vol. xx., p. 206. On the Myology of the Forelimb of the Mole.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21290076_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
