THOKACIC LIMBS 



The Palm, or Metacarpus, with live cylindrical metacarpal 



bones ; 

 The Fingers, or Digits, every one with two or three bones, 



the phalanges, arranged end to end. 



FIG. 414. 



Vertebral Column. 



Hyold. 



Clavicle. 

 Sternum. 



Metacarpus. 



Metatarsus. 

 Phalanges. 



THE SKELETON OP THE CAT. (LEFT SIDE ONLY.) 



THE CLAVICLE. 



General Description. The Clavicle is a slender curved bone, 

 from eighteen to twenty-five millimetres in length, embedded in 

 muscle on the ventral side of tHe body in the interval between the 

 point of the shoulder and the breast-bone. It is connected only by 

 muscle and fascia with the thorax and the scapula, and has no proper 



ligaments of its own. 



FIG. 415. 



Ventral Side. 



Medial End. 



Lateral End. 



LEFT CLAVICLE. CAUDAL ASPECT. 



It presents a broad, strongly curved lateral end, and a straighter, 

 more cylindrical medial end. It has only two clearly defined surfaces, 

 one cephalic, the other caudal, separated by dorsal and ventral borders. 



The ventral border is arcuate; the point of maximum curvature 

 lies in the outer third of the bone. 



The dorsal border is emarginate. 



