The lancet is passed though the integuments and platysma myoides into the vessel, midway between the jaw and clavicle.
The nature and extent of the coverings of an abscess seated deeply in the neck are to be kept in view—the platysma myoides, the superficial and deep cervical fasciæ.
This condition is generally associated with similar contractions in other facial muscles, as in a case of facial and palpebral tic with platysma involvement recorded by Meirowitz,[62] or as in young M.
In all cases the contraction of the platysma causes the wound to gape widely, and its edges tend to be turned in.
After the skin and platysma are divided, the posterior belly of the digastric must be recognised, which again will guide to the posterior edge of the hyo-glossus.
More energetic contraction of platysma on healthy side when mouth is opened or when head is flexed against resistance.
These tics are usually observed in and about the head, involving the sternomastoid, trapezius, and platysmamuscles to produce clonic contractions of the neck.
The platysma muscle is a broad tissue paper like muscle, placed immediately beneath the skin and a part of the superficial fascia, in the cervicle or neck region.
Having cut through the skin and platysma muscle, the superficial fascia is next seen.
When the skin is cut, the platysma muscle will as a rule be cut too, and because of its thinness it will rarely be seen or does it form any hindrance to the raising of the artery.
And this leads me to ask you to be so kind as to observe, if any opportunity should occur, whether the platysma contracts during extreme terror, as before an operation; and secondly, whether it contracts during a shivering fit.
Subcutaneous platysma myoides muscle, lying on the face, neck, and upper part of chest, and covering the structures contained in the two surgical triangles of the neck.
All these structures, except some of the lymphatic glands, are concealed by the platysma myoides A, as seen in Plate 3, and beneath this by the cervical fascia, which latter shall be hereafter more clearly represented.
Platysma muscle cut on the body of sterno-mastoid muscle.
In a fifth case, the patient, who was not chloroformed, was much terrified; and his platysma was more forcibly and persistently contracted than in the other cases.
In only four of the cases was the platysma visibly contracted; and it did not begin to contract until the patients began to cry.
Now, whenever a person starts at any sudden sight or sound, he instantaneously draws a deep breath; and thus the contraction of the platysma may possibly have become associated with the sense of fear.
I have caught myself giving a little involuntary shudder at a painful thought, and I distinctly perceived that my platysma contracted; so it does if I simulate a shudder.
Duchenne has given another photograph of the same old man, with the platysma contracted, the eyes and mouth opened, and the eyebrows rendered oblique, by means of galvanism.
Unfortunately I have not been able to ascertain whether, when the whole body shakes, as in the cold stage of an ague fit, the platysma contracts.
Ogle and Langstaff, the platysma was not contracted.
Ogle observed two male patients, suffering from such difficulty in breathing, that the trachea had to be opened, and in both the platysma was strongly contracted.
He then voluntarily shuddered, as he had done on former occasions, but the platysma was not then affected.
Duchenne, together with his remarks thereon, I think there can be little doubt that the contraction of the platysma does add greatly to the expression of fear.
Yellow dyes, again, are derived from Chlorea vulpina, Platysma juniperinum, Parmelia caperata and P.
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