216 THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 



The Interarticular Fibro-cartilage should be exposed by removing 

 the capsuh\r ligament on the outer side. The cartilage extends com- 

 pletely across the joint, which it divides into an upper and a lower cavity. 

 Its upper surfiice is a cast of the temporal articular surfoce, while its 

 lower is moulded on the condyle of the jaw. 



Synovial Sacs. The upper of these belongs to the ai-ticulation 

 between the fibro-cartilage and the temporal articular surface; the lower 

 to the articulation between the fibro-cartilage and the condyle. 



Movements. These are — depression, elevation, 2i'>'otraction, retraction, 

 and lateral movement of the inferior maxilla. 



When the jaw is depressed, as in opening the mouth, the condyles of 

 both jaws are can-ied forwards, taking with them the fibro-cax-tilages, 

 until they lie under the condyle of the temporal articular surface ; and 

 at the same time, the maxillaiy condyles move in the depression on the 

 under surface of the interarticular fibro-cartilage, rotating around a 

 transverse axis. When the lower jaw is protracted, the movement 

 consists principally in antero-posterior gliding between the temporal 

 articular sui*face and the interarticular cartilage ; and when the same 

 movement is executed alternately on opposite sides, a lateral, grinding 

 action is produced. 



THE cavity of THE NOSE (FIGS. 24 AND 25). 



Dii-ections. — Make, with, the saw, an antero-posterior vertical section 

 of the head, a little to one or other side of the mesial plane, taking the 

 mesial stxtures on the front of the head as a guide. 



The cavity of the nose is the first segment of the air-passages, and is 

 thus a part of the respiratoiy apparatus. It is also in part devoted to 

 the sense of smell, the olftictory nerve being distributed over a part of 

 its boundaiy walls. It is a large tubular passage tunnelled through the 

 sk\ill in front of the mouth (the head being vertical). A mesial partition 

 — the septum nasi — divides the passage longitudinally into the right 

 and left nasal fossce. Each nasal fossa may be described as having 

 anterior, posterior, and lateral walls, and a superior and an inferior 

 extremity. 



The Anterior Wall, sometimes termed the Hoof, is narrow and formed 

 by the frontal and nasal bones. 



The Posterior Wall, sometimes termed the Floor, is considerably more 

 extensive than the roof It is formed by the palatine, siipcrior maxillary, 

 and premaxillary bones, b\it in much greater proportion by the second 

 of these. 



The Outer Wall is formed by the nasal and superior maxillary bones, 

 and is occupied by the anterior and posterior turbinated bones, which 

 project into the cavity and separate the meatuses of the nose from one 

 Jtnother. Thus, the anterior meatus is the narrow interval between the 



