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system, the ventral abductors and the flexors to the ventral. 

 Aside from these there is found a series of inter transfer sarii 

 cauda, presumably belonging to the dorsal system as in the 

 case of the lumbar muscles of the same name. 



B 



FIG. 56. Human caudal muscles. [After LARTSCHNEIDER.] 



(A) Ventral. (B) Dorsal. 



pir, piriformis; acv, abductor caudse ventralis; acd, abductor caudse dorsalis; eel, 

 extensor caudse lateralis; sea, sacrococcygeus anterior (^flexor caudae). The lumbar 

 vertebrae are designated by Roman numerals, the coccygeal by Arabic. 



