1574 HUMAN ANATOMY. 



asilv recognized, as just before it is a V-shaped arrangement of circumvallate papillae 

 the medbn apex being at or near a small depression, the foramen '.ccecum which 

 mark Une termination of the foetal duct through the tongue from the thyroid. In 

 the adult this may be a short tunnel or a depression, into which the ducts of several 

 glands open. According to Munch, 1 it is always behind the hindmost circumvallate 



FIG. 1334- 



Cut zygoma 



Pterygoid 



plates 

 Eustachian 

 tube 



Cut and reflected __ 



SOft nnl:lte__ IK- 



Half of uvula 

 Anterior pillar of fauces 



Posterior pillar of fauces 



Spine of 

 phenoid 

 Zygoma 



Fossa of 

 Rosenmuller 



^^_ Posterior wall of 

 pharynx 



>ft palate cut and turned 

 aside 



Lymph-nodules constituting 

 lingual tonsil 



Anterior portion of head has been removed by frontal section passing through plane of posterior nares ; the soft palate 

 i-ut in mill inn- .in.i (uiii.-.i .IM.IL-, exposing posterior wall of pharynx ; ton.uiR- drawn forward and downward. 



papilla. Tin- mucous membrane covering the dorsum of the tongue is closely beset 

 with elevations, or /><//>///,/-, of which there are three varieties, the filiform, fungiform, 

 an-1 cin-uiuvallate. In general they consist of a core of connective-tissue stroma cov- 

 en-d with stratified squamous epithelium ; the projection formed by the connective 

 ue bean minute secondary papilla-, which, however, do not model the free sur- 



;.; Arbeiten, I'-d. vi., 



