Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29 Paradise Street.

  • Liverpool Museum of Anatomy.
Date:
[1877?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29 Paradise Street. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    662. The eye magnified and dissectable:—Seven muscles. (1) Levator. (2) Rectus, superior. (3) Ditto, inferior. (4) Ditto, internus. (5) Ditto, externus. (6 and 7) Oblique, superior and inferior. (8) Lachrymal gland and ducts. (10) Cornea. (11) Sclerotic. (12) Black choroide. (13) Iris. (14) The globe or vitreous humour. (15) Optic nerve. 633. Crystalline lens—it is double convex. 634. The globe of the eye composed cf the vitreous humour. 635. —Retina ; or, the white expansion cf the optic nerve. 636. —The black choroide coat. 667: ^ie . By the sense of hearing we become acquainted with sound. This depends on the fact that sounding bodies produce by ibration, undulations in the air, which are conveyed to a distance, and which the ear is adapted by its peculiar construction to receive and transmit to the brain. In the Ear, immensely magnified, may be seen to advantage_ A’ Concha ; M, Meatus, or canal leading to the T. Tympanum (drum.) A hollow cavity containing the drum, with four bones fixed^ thereon called, the incus or anvil, malleus or hammer stomp, and the os obiculare. E, Eustachian tuble. 638. —B, The semi-circular canals. 639. —Nerves of ditto. 640. c, Cochlea, D, the vestibule and labyrinth. 641. — Auditory nerve, etc. [See No. 642.] , 642-—M^dels of the external, middle and internal portions of the Ear, immensely magnified, dissectable. Concha of [he ear; (M) meatus, or passage leading to (d) the membrane of the dium (t) tympanum, a hollow cavity called the drum of the ear containing four little bones or ossicles, and communicating with the back pait of the throat by means of (e) eustachian tube ; (s) semicircular canals ; r nriVei0f Sen?rcular ca]His 5 (c) tvvo sections of the cochlea, showing t le internal spiral lamina, and the nervous filaments upon it : (n) auditory nerves or nerve of hearing, which enters at the back. ^ }