Size small (see measurements); sagittal crest present but low; interorbital region relatively broad; teeth essentially as in L.
In addition, it appears not to have the enormously developed sagittal crest of the other specimens of insularis although posteriorly the dorsal part of the skull (where the crest is most prominent) is missing.
Hyotherium (which is regarded as identical with Palaeochoerus) has a sharp sagittal crest; the orbit is nearly but not quite closed.
The American forms have weak and slender nasals in correspondence with the absence of horns; the sagittal crest is retained in contradistinction to the great flattened surface of the skull in the horned Rhinoceroses.
Mr. Parsons mentions a wormian bone, "os epilepticum," at the junction of the coronal andsagittal sutures.
The whole skull is {456} long, and the top has a great sagittal crest.
The skull is deeply ridged behind with the usual sagittal crest.
The sagittal crest is less marked; the fifth digit is reduced to a tiny nodule representing the metacarpus.
The skull is long with a prominent sagittal crest.
In the gorilla and certain other monkeys, the cranium of the adult male presents a strongly-marked sagittal crest, which is absent in the female; and Ecker found a trace of a similar difference between the two sexes in the Australians.
In the posterior third of the sagittal suture, where the parietal bones were firm and well formed, and the suture only two lines in width, were seen small livid portions of the longitudinal sinus forced between the bones.
In some cases the sagittal suture is continued backwards through the occipital bone, dividing it into two equal portions, and thus making the posterior fontanelle four cornered, and not to be distinguished from the anterior.
Let us suppose that the head is in the first position, with its sagittal suture parallel with the right oblique diameter of the pelvis, and that in accordance with the above rule, the upper blade is to be introduced first.
The organ is shown in sagittal section in order to display the great thickening of the endometrium.
In some cases it may be preferable to bisect the uterus in the sagittal plane before removing it, after the cervico-vaginal attachments have been separated and the peritoneal pouches opened.
A rugine which works in a sagittal plane is then introduced below the tumour and made to pass upwards behind it--the reverse movement of Gottstein’s curette in the removal of adenoids (Fig.
The sagittal region is elevated into a crest which begins 4cm.
The two more posterior measures show the rapid downward slope of the posterior half of the sagittal region.
The sides of the surface present a pentagonal outline with rounded corners, the apex corresponding to the sagittal suture, or obelion.
If, however, the object is seen to be in the sagittal plane it must lie in the trachea.
Not bringing the greatest diameter of the foreign body into the sagittalplane of the glottic chink.
Flat objects, like coins, always lie with their greatest diameter in the coronal plane of the body, when in the esophagus; in the sagittal plane, when in the trachea or larynx.
The transverse arc from one auditory foramen to the other across the middle of the sagittalsuture measures about 13 inches.
The sagittal suture (b c) is 5 1/2 inches in length.
But the skull is relatively higher and broader, or more brachycephalic, the sagittal suture longer, and the superciliary ridges less projecting, than in the Neanderthal skull.
The summit of the head rises in a longitudinal ridge in the direction of the sagittal suture; so that from the sagittal suture to that portion of the cranium where the diameter is greatest the head slopes like the roof of a house.
In considering injuries of the above nature, one cannot help speculating on the possible influence of a head-over-heels ricochet turn on the part of the bullet while traversing the long sagittal axis of the skull.
Extensive sagittal tracks passing deeply through the brain, and vertical wounds passing from base to vertex or vice versa, in the posterior two thirds of the skull.
For implication of the transverse processes sagittal wounds coursing in varying degrees of obliquity were mainly responsible.
In connection with the latter statement, the rarity of direct sagittal wounds in the hospitals should be mentioned.
The course of the sagittal suture is grooved, and above the angle of the occipital bone the parietals are depressed.
The transverse arc of the skull, measured from one auditory foramen to the other, across the middle of the sagittal suture, is about 13 inches.
The coronal and sagittal sutures are on the exterior nearly closed, and on the inside so completely ossified as to have left no traces whatever, whilst the lambdoidal remains quite open.
The two parietal ridges on the skull remain widely separated, so that no sagittal crest is formed.
Skull with the zygomatic arches and sagittal crest immensely developed, ascending branch of lower jaw very high, giving great space for attachment of temporal muscle, and facial portion short.
Zygomatic arches of skull very wide and strong; and sagittal crest high, giving attachment to very powerful biting muscles.
Skull very wide in the occipital region; the lambdoidal crest greatly developed, and the sagittal but slightly, contrary to what obtains in Meles.
Sagittal and lambdoidal crests are more prominent in males than in females.
There are no signs left of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures, and only the basal portions of the temporo-occipital articulation remain.
Their upper lines or boundaries touch each other over a part of the sagittal suture, a little back of the bregma; while the lower lines approach to within 6 mm.
The sagittal crest is insignificant; the occipital crest is high, but not very massive.
The point at which the division has reached the sagittal suture is situated a little behind the middle of the latter.
The suture runs nearly parallel with the sagittal suture," but, as the illustration shows (Fig.
The division in the right parietal of the chimpanzee, beginning slightly below the middle of the anterior border of the bone, and ending slightly back of the middle of its sagittal border, has no analogy among the cases previously described.
Two low ridges extend posteriorly from the postorbital process to the anterior end of the sagittal crest and correspond to ridges in similar position in Thrinaxodon.
The sagittal crest in Thrinaxodon is present but low.
The medial division or temporal arose from the sagittal crest and supraoccipital crest and the intervening dermal roof.
In Didelphis the sagittal crest is high and dorsally convex in lateral aspect, arising posterior to and medial to the orbits, reaching its greatest height near the midpoint, and sloping down to its termination at the supraoccipital crest.
Sagittal section of a primipara in the last month of pregnancy.
The hair was clipped from the head, and an incision carried immediately from between the eye-brows to the back part of the skull, in the direction of the sagittal suture.
At three-fourths of the width of the bone, the fracture ran parallel with the sagittal suture, and this large portion was depressed upon the tunics of the brain, the dura mater being considerably lacerated.
In norma occipitalis the sagittal suture appears at the summit of a ridge whose parietal sides slope outwards forming with each other an angle of 138 deg.
The parietal sagittal arc, including the region where there was probably a supra-lambdoid ossicle, was about 140 mm.
The skull examined, of an adult male, differs from Coahuilan and New Mexican skulls in having a broad rostrum, better developed sagittal and lambdoidal crests, and smaller tympanic bullae.
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