The anatomist's vade-mecum : containing the anatomy and physiology of the human body / by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1801
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Credit: The anatomist's vade-mecum : containing the anatomy and physiology of the human body / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    form the ftature of the body, defend its vif- cera, and give adhefion to its mufcles. Sue- stance. Compatt, as in the bodies of the long bones ; fpongy, as in the extremities of the long bones ; and reticular, called alfo the cancelli of bones, as in the cavities of bones which have marrow. Colour. Whitifn. Fig- ure. Various. Division. Long and irregular Jhaped bones are divided into a body and ex- tremities ; and flat bones into body and mar- gins. Bones are varioufly named ; fome from their fituation, as the frontal, parietal, occipi- tal, nal'al, malar, &c ; others* from their fig- ure, as the ethmoid bone,clavicle, os cuboides naviculare, tibia, &c. ; and fome from their ufe, as the fphamoid bone, the maxillary bone, the femur, &c. The procejfes and canities of bones are named after their figure, as the ace- tabulum of the os innominatum, the odontoid procefs of the fecond cervical vertebra, the coracoid procefs of the fcapula, &c. ; or from their ufe, as the trochanters of the thigh bone ; or from their fituation, as the nafal, palatine, orbitar proceffes, &c. &c. When the bones are deprived of their foft parts, and hung together, in their natural fitu- ation, by means of wire, the whole is termed an artificial Jkeleton : but when they are kept together by means of their ligaments, it is call- ed a natural Jkeleton. A Table