Manual of clinical diagnosis / by Otto Seifert and Friedrich Müller ; translated by William Buckingham Canfield.

  • Otto Seifert
Date:
1887
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Credit: Manual of clinical diagnosis / by Otto Seifert and Friedrich Müller ; translated by William Buckingham Canfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III, ORGANS OF RESPIRATION Topography of the Chest. The vertebral column has a normal curvature at the cervical, dorsal, lumbar, and sacral regions. A patho¬ logical curvature of the vertebral column convexly back¬ ward is called cyphosis. The same deformity, not curved but angular in character, is called gib bus.. A curvature forward is called lordosis, and a lateral curvature scoliosis. A deforming curvature both laterally and backward is called cypho-scoliosis. The sternum in the adult is about 16-20 cm. [6-8 inches] long. The angular prominence between the manubrium and body is called the angulus Ludovici. A bending inward of the xiphoid process, and of the lower part of the body, is called funnel breast. This latter shape of the thorax is acquired.\ and is seen in some occupations, e. g., in cobblers who press their instru¬ ments against the breast (cobbler’s breast). When the costal cartilages in rachitis are pressed in by lateral com¬ pression, and the sternum has a keel shape, it is called pectus carinatum or chicken breast. The clavicle has a supra- and infra-clavicular groove in it. The external part of the latter is called Mohren- heim’s groove. The scapula covers the second to seventh or third to eighth rib, and is provided with a fossa supraspinata and
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