Anatomy of the three-toed sloth. 



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of the Reptilia, and Klaatsch (5) has described the peritoneum 

 exhaustively in them. 



The Foramen of Winslow is also very wide as in the case of 

 Reptiles. It has the usual boundaries. 



In Plate II. A the ventral wall of the lesser sac has been 

 removed round the letters MGIJKL and one sees the pancreas (P) 

 in the dorsal wall of the sac. 



Text-figure 13. 

 ' A P m\ ■■HHum M 



The suspensory ligaments of the liver .and the manner in which their continuations 

 enter into the formation of the anterior part of the common mesentery. Two 

 halves, B' and B" of A, pass round the edges of the liver at the points + 

 and X. They eventually become the mesentery Dot" figs. C and D. A and a, 

 inferior vena cava, c: lesser omentum. E: oesophagus. 



Ligaments of the Liver. 

 When the liver is depressed so as to show the anterior surface 

 (text-fig. 13, A), one can see how it is connected to the diaphragm 

 by a V-shaped sheet of peritoneum whose apex is dorsal. The 



