THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. I. SEPTEMBER, 1828. 
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ANATOMY OF THE HORSE. 
(Continued from page 269.) 
III.—THE HEAD IN GENERAL. 
WE shall now take a review of the head in its entire or articu¬ 
lated state, making, to facilitate the description, a 
Division of it into External and Internal parts. 
The External Parts 
may be conveniently distinguished into superior, posterior, inferior, 
and lateral surfaces; and each of these surfaces admits of a fur¬ 
ther subdivision into cranial and facial regions. 
THE SUPERIOR EXTERNAL SURFACE comprehends— 
1st.' —The superior cranial region, in which we find 
several zigzag denticulated lines, denominated sutures^ indicating 
the boundaries and articulations of the several individual bones. 
In this region, commencing from its anterior limits, we observe 
the frontal suture, formed by the articulation of the frontal bones, 
surmounted by a transverse serpentine one; the coronal suture, 
showing the line of junction of these bones with the parietal; 
next, the parietal prominences, bounded posteriorly by the lamb- 
doidal suture, which joins the occipital with the parietal bones : 
lastly, forming the posterior boundary of the region, the occipital 
cresti, 
2d.— The superior facial region, continuous, behind, 
with the last-described region, presents to view, commencing 
from its posterior boundary, the transverse suture, the line of 
union between the bones of the cranium and those of the face 
joining the frontal to the nasal ,and lachrymal bones: continued 
forwards, in a direct line with the frontal, the nasal suture, which 
unites the nasal bones: this suture runs within a sort of hollow 
from the bone, on its sides, rising into the nasal prominences: 
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