Anatomical variations (III) / by W.W. Wagstaffe and Robert W. Reid.

  • Wagstaffe, W. W. (William Warwick), 1843-1910.
Date:
[1878]
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    a*) ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS. an.) By W. W. WAGSTAFFE, F.E.C.S., SENIOR ASSISTANT SURGEON AND LECTURER ON ANATOMY; AND ROBERT W. REID, M.D., M.C., SENIOR DEMONSTRATOR OF ANATOMY AND JOINT DEMONSTRATOR OF MORBID ANATOMY. During the past Session 1877-78 thirty-one bodies have been dissected. In these we have noticed the following more interesting variations :— Pterygoideus Proprius. An example of this muscle occurred in a male subject. The superficial fibres of the external pterygoid arose from its under surface. It was attached above to the pterygoid ridge, and below to the outer surface of the external pterygoid plate, and was almost entirely muscular. The maxillary head of the external pterygoid was deficient but not absent. Similar cases have been reported by us,1 and by Ilenle, Gruber, and Theilc. 1 * St. Thomas’s Hospital Reports,’ vol. vi, p. 75 ; * Journ. Auat. Phys.,’vol, vii, p. 160.