The names of the encephalic arteries.

  • Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925.
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[1885]
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    Reprinted from the New Yorh Medical Journal for November 28, 1885. THE NAMES OF THE ENCEPHALIC ARTERIES. Ithaca, N. Y., October Sj^,, 1885. To the Editor of the New Yorh Medical Journal: Sir: The report of ray paper On a Seldom-described Artery {A. termaticn)., with Suggestion.? as to tiie Names of tbe Principal Encephalic Arteries, in the Transactions of the American Neurological Association, pp. 33, 84 (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol. xii. No. 3, pp. 348, 849, July, 1885), contains an error, due to my own inadvertence, which can be most effectually corrected if jou can spare the space for the following table, as amended. Instead of two cerebellar arteries, there are three, superior, anterior.^ and inferior., the mononymic new names for which are prcecerebellaris., medicerebellar is., and post- ceTeiellaris, and the English paronyms of these, jyrecereiellar, medicerebellar, and 2>ostcerebellar. Common Latin names. Proposed names. English paronjTns, Abbrevia- tions. Vertebralis. Basilaris. (as.) Cerebellaris superior. Cerebellaris anterior. Cerebellaris inferior. Cerebralis anterior. Cerebralis media. Cerebralis posterior. Commnnicans anterior, (az.) Commnnicans posterior. Choroidea a:iterior. Choroidea posterior. Vertebralis. Basilaris. Prascerebellaris. Medicerebellaris. Postuerebellaris. Prsecerebralis. Medicerebralis. Postcerebralis. Praacommnnicans. Postcommunicans. Prsechoroidea. Postchoroidea. Vertebral. Basilar. Precerebellar. Medicerebellar. Postcerebellar. Precerebral. Medicerebral. Postcerebral. Precommunicant. Postcommimicant. Prechoroid. Postchoroid. vrtb. bslr. prcW. mcbl. pcbl. prcb. mcb. })cb. prcm. pcm. prchrd. pchrd. I have no mononym to propose for the very awkward dio- nymic eponym, Circulus Willisii (circle or pentagon or hexa- gon of Willis), but one is certainly desirable. In this connection, permit me to add that in the paper On Two Little-known Cerebral Fissures, following the one just named, on pages 350 and 351, neutromesal, callossal, and hypo- campal, should be ventromesal, callosal, and Jiippocampal, and oil page 352 hippocampal should be included with the fissures mainly or partly mesal. B. G. Wilder.