33^ 



ELEMENTAR Y ANA TOMY. 



[LESS. 



and backwards so as to extend from the hyoid to the distal 

 end of the tail. 



Transversalis. This third abdominal muscle as it exists 

 in man is normal, but its aponeurotic part may be much 



FIG. 304. SUPERFICIAL VENTRAL MUSCLES OF RIGHT SIDE IN MENOTOMA. 



ExO, external oblique ; FC , femoro-caudal ; G, gracilis ; /, iliacus ; 1C, ischio- 

 caudal; IIC, ilio-caudal ; SM. semi-membranosus ; ST, semi-tendinosus ; TA, 

 tibialis anticus. 



greater than in him, as e.g. in Iguana, where its fascia is 

 continued on, even into the neck, within the nerves of the 

 brachial plexus, which pass external to it as the abdominal 

 nerves pass between it and the internal oblique. 



