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HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY 



tion of parts named with reference merely to a single animal 

 form, for the names given them, e.g., cuneiform, trapezium, 

 multangulum ma jus, os magnum, etc., are wholly relative and 

 might not apply even to closely allied animals. Since, how- 

 ever, these older names are still more or less used, it may be 

 well to compare them with the more unusual nomenclature 

 given above, a comparison which may be best shown in the 

 form of a table as follows : 



* Synonyms used more frequently by European anatomists, are given 

 in parentheses. These latter have been adopted by the BNA, but the 

 substitution of them in America for the more familiar terms placed first 

 in the above list, will be difficult to accomplish, and it is a question if it 

 be desirable, since neither set of terms rests upon a morphological basis. 



