Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • James Paget
Date:
1883
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their borders and surfaces. The spine is not distorted, nor are the intervertebral spaces diminished in depth beneath the uniting growths of bone ; but the anterior and other parts of the margins of the bodies of the vertebrge which are not covered by the plates of bone are thickened and nodulated. Hunterian. 2042. Two cervical vertebrae, the bodies of which are united hj the coalition of similar ridges of bone deposited on the adjacent parts of their anterior borders. Their other borders are thickened and nodulated. Hunterian, 2043. Vertical sections of two cervical vertebrse, similarly united. They show that the bond of union is confined to the ex- terior of the vertebrge, as if a bridge of new bone passed from the surface of one to that of the other over the inter- vertebral substance. All their own tissue is healty, except in that the other borders of their bodies and parts of the articular processes are nodulated. Hunterian. 2044. Five lower dorsal vertebrse, the bodies of three of which are firmly united by similar growths of bone over their surfaces and borders on the left side. There are similar growths on the other two vertebrse ] but they have not yet coalesced with those above and below them. The spine is slightly curved towards the right side, in consequence of the approximation of the left borders of the vertebrse. The borders of the left articular processes of the lowest two vertebrse are enlarged and nodulated; and there are thin I'idges of new bone on the upper margins of their arches. Hunterian. 2045. Four dorsal vertebrse, the bodies of which are similarly united. The chief growths of bone are on the left surfaces and borders of the vertebrse ; and there is a slight curvature towards the right side. There are also thin layers of fasci- culated bone uniting the arches of the vertebrse, in the situation of the ligamenta subflava, like which ligaments also these plates of bone have large apertures in the middle line. Hunterian.