Wilder, Neural Teinns. 263 



some of which have been hithero more commonly employed : 

 ATLAS {I'eiiebra ceruicalis prima); epistropheus {y. c. secundas); 

 MANDiBULA {os vtaxUlare inferiiis); thalamus {tJialamiis opticus); 

 CUNEUS {lobulus cuucatus); praecuneus {lobulus quadrilaterus); 

 UNCUS {gyms uncinatus); hippocampus {Jiippocampus major); 

 PONS {pons Varolii); insula (insula Rcilii). 



§156. Likewise, even had any one of the committees 

 sanctioned certain mononymic adjectives that have hitherto 

 been employed only by individuals, before entering upon an 

 Index expurgatorius such "harmless vocables" as Arteria 

 postcerebralis (for A. cercbralis posterior ), Gyrus subfront- 

 ALis (for G. frontalis inferior), and Fissura praesylviana (for 

 Ramus anterior asccndens fissurae cejrbri lateralis \_Sylvii~^, they 

 must account for the following instances upon their own Hst of 

 the replacement of qualifying phrases in perfectly good and reg- 

 ular standing by adjectives consisting of a single word each : 

 MuscuLus epicranius {occipito- frontalis); Muscui.us platysma 

 {M. platysma myoides); Sulcus praecentralis (5. centralis an- 

 terior); and Fissura calcarina {F, occipitalis horizontalis). 



§157. Notwithstanding, however, the above enumerated 

 German examples of mononymy, it must be admitted that there 

 still exist somewhat radical distinctions in principle between the 

 committees of the two nations. Good words may be predicated 

 of both ; but so may " good works " be done sometimes by 

 the "unjust" as well as by the "just." The real distinction 

 lies not so much in specific deeds as in general preference. 



§158. As early as 1891, the principles upon which the 

 German committee proposed to base their revision of Anatomic 

 Nomenclature were formulated and announced as follows 

 (Krause, '91, a) : 



" Die erwahnten Grundsatze sind nicht so zu verstehen, als ob 

 sie etwa ausnahmefreien Naturgesetzen entsprechen sollten. Ihre For- 

 mulirung ist um so mehr als euie provisorische zu betrachten, als es 

 sich hier nur um die Myologie handelt. 



I. Jeder Korpertheil darf nur einen einzigen lateinischen Namen 

 haben. Es geht nicht an, wie es manche Handbiicher thun, sich mit 

 einem sive zu helfen und die beiden Ausdriicke dann abwechselnd zu 

 gebiauchen. Deutsche Benennungen, insofern sie nicht ohnehin 



