Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking.

  • Oetteking, Bruno, 1871-
Date:
1928
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Credit: Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 12.—Dorsal view of the ar¬ thritic torso. (Phys. Anthr. cat. 900) ly, attains 43 cm. The loci of arthritic de¬ genera tion are, as the term implies, the joints. In the interver¬ tebral joints, which are par¬ ticularly af¬ fected, the fi- brocartilages (ligamen t a i n terverte- bralia) are so extraordinar - ily enlarged in ossi fi c a t i o n that they form volu¬ minous bol¬ sters entirely around the adjacent body edges of the vertebrae, es¬ pecially i n [54]