Artistic anatomy of animals / Édouard Cuyer ; translated & edited by George Haywood.
- Cuyer, Édouard, 1852-
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Artistic anatomy of animals / Édouard Cuyer ; translated & edited by George Haywood. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![three ; except in the bat, and the majority of the cetaceans. In certain animals (in the ungulates [hoofed*]—pigs, oxen, sheep, horses) the superior, or spinal, border of the scapula is surmounted by a cartilage called the cartilage of prolongation. This is the cause why the border to which it is fixed is so Fig. io.—Situation and Direc- tion of the Scapula in the Human Being, the Trunk being Horizontal, as in Quadrupeds. Vertical and Transverse Sec- tion of the Thorax (Diagram- matic Figure). i, Contour of tlie thorax; 2, 2, the scapula. Fig. 11.—Position and Direction of the Scapula in Quadrupeds. Vertical and Transverse Sec- tion of the Thorax (Diagram- matic Figure). 1, Contour of the thorax; 2, 2, the scapula. slightly noticeable under the skin in these animals ; indeed, in the upper part, the bone and cartilage are not distinguish- able in the contour of the corresponding region of the back ; being applied to the lateral surfaces of the spinous processes, the prominence formed by the extremities of which is directly continuous with the plane of the scapula (Fig. 16).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28059177_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
