33' INTRODUCTION. 



the sake of illustrating some of the more common cases of designation of 

 relative position and lines of direction. 



The points A, B and C lie at or upon the meson, and are therefore mesal. 

 So also, the dotted lines between the points are mesal lines. 



D is not at the meson, and is therefore later ad (in this case sinistrad) 

 of B ; but it lies nearer the meson than E, and is therefore mesad of it. 



B lies cephalad of C, but caudad of A. 



E lies lat&ro-ceplialad of C, and latero-caudad of A, 



A lies meso-cephaJad of E, and C meso-caudad. The line A, B, C is a 

 ceplialo-candal, or caudo-cephalic line, or it may be described as extending 

 caudad from A, or cephalad from C. 



The line E, D, B, is a 9)ieso-si7iistral, or sinistro-mcsal line, and may be 

 said to extend either mesad from E, or laterad {sinistrad) from B. 



The line A, E extends meso-cephcdad from E, or sinist?'0-caudad from A. 



The line A, B, C coincides with the meson, and a cut upon it would be 

 a hemisection. 



The line E, D, B, E' is a transverse line, or at right angles with the 

 meson, and a cut therein would be a transection. 



Finally, an organ on the meson, and represented, for instance, by B, is 

 not only mesal in position, but also called azygous or unpaired ; while two 

 similar organs, one upon each side, and represented for instance by E', are 

 lateral in position, and called paired organs. Each such paired organ may 

 be called the platetrope of the other, or its lateral homologne, or the felloio 

 of the opposite side. 



The letters upon the right leg have similar relations, excepting that 

 proximal and distal take the place of mesal and lateral or dextral and 

 sinistral. 



I and K, for example, lie respectively cephalad and caudad of G ; while 

 G lies caudad of I and cephalad of K. F lies proxiuiad of G, and G of H : 

 n is distad of G, and the relative locations of the three may be designated 

 as proximal, distal and intermediate. 



A. The reasons for represanting the limbs in the position lierc givoii them will bo 

 more advantageously presented in § 80. 



B. The dotted lines connecting the two extremities of the soma with the distal ends 

 of the limbs illustrate the idea referred to on p. 2G that tlie limbs are essentially remnunts 

 of two continuous lateral folds ; see also Balfour, A, III, 501. 



§ 58. Figure 3 represents an ideal transection of the body of a cat, or 

 any other vertebrate possessing limbs. 



Only some of the more constant and essential features are here shown. 



Near the middle of the figure is the section of the Columna vertehralis. 



The Columna vertehralis or spinal column may be of bone, cartilage, or 

 a semi-solid material with membraneous Avails, according to the animal ex- 



