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The anatomy of human bodies epitomiz'd : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly describ'd, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson.

  • Gibson, Thomas, 1647-1722.
Date:
1688
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Credit: The anatomy of human bodies epitomiz'd : wherein all the parts of man's body, with their actions and uses, are succinctly describ'd, according to the newest doctrine of the most accurate and learned modern anatomists / by Tho. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : ee Chap. II. Of the conjunc¥ions of Bones. 52g throfis, becaufe it is clofe and ‘compact. «>> Diarthrofis, or that jointing which ferves*for 1. Diar- manifeft motion, is threefold, Firkt, Evarthrijis, throtiss which is when a large head‘of a’ bone is received into a deep Cavity, as the Thigh-bone into the - Hip-bone. Secondly, Arthrodia, which is when the Cavity, which receiveth,: is fhallow, and the head:of the bone, whiclris received, flattifh 5 fich isthe articulation of the Radius with the Shoulder- bone, or of the Shoulder-bone with the Scapula. The third is Ginglymos ; when the fame bone re- ceiveth, and is received, “This falleth out three manner of ways. Firft, when the bone is received by another, and receiveth the fame ; this is feen in the articulation of the Shoulder-bone with the Ulna Secondly, when a bone receiveth one bone, and is received by another ; which is done in the Spondyls or Vertebre of the Back, where the middle Bone receiveth the upper, and is re- ceived by the lower. The third is, -when the procefs of the Bone being long and round, is in- ferted into another upper Bone, and {fo is turned in the Cavity like an Axil-Tree in a Wheel ; fo is the fecond vertebra of the Neck jointed with the firft. Synarthrofis or Articulation for obfcure motion is >, synars fuch as that of the Ribs with the Vertebr;@c. — throfis. Bones grow together either sithout fome middle symphy- heterogeneous fubftance, or with it. Without fome fis. middle fubftance,they are joined three manner of ways. ~Firft, by a fimple line, as the Bones of the upper Jaw and Nofe; this is called Harmonia. Secondly, by a future, (or Raphe) as the Bones - of the Skull, Thirdly, when one Bone is faften- ed in another, as anailin wood; and fo are the