CHAP. X.] 



THE SKULL OF MAX. 



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FlG. 49— Vertical, longitudinal, median section of a young human skull, with the first 

 dentition, \. As in the other sections of skulls figured, the mandible is displaced 

 downwards, so as to show its entire form PMx premaxilla ; MT maxillo- 

 turbinal ; ET ethmo-turbinal ; ME ossified portion of the mesethmoid ; Na nasal ; 

 eg crista galli of the me- ethmoid ; OS orbitosphenoid, or lesser wing of the 

 sphenoid ; AS alisphenoid, or greater wing of the sphenoid ; Fr frontal ; Pa 



Iiriecal ; SO supraoccipital ; M mastoid portion of the periotic ; Sq squamosal ; 

 er petrous portion of the periotic ; the large foramen below the end of the line 

 the internal auditory meatus, the small depression above it is the nearly- 

 jliterated floccular fossa. ExO exoccipital, the line points to the condylar fora- 

 en;y>« foramen magnum ; BO basioccipital ; BS basisphenoid ; st sella turcica ; 

 6" presphenoid, ankylosed with the basisphenoid, forming the "body of the 

 >henoid ;" Pt pterygoid ; PI palatine ; Vo vomer ; Mx maxilla ; j symphysis of 

 mandible ; cp corohoid process ; cd articular condyle ; a angle ; sh stylohyal, or 

 " styloid process of temporal ; " ch ceratohyal, or lesser cornu of hyoid ; bh basi- 

 hyal, or body of hyoid ; th thyrohyal, or greater cornu of hyoid. 



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