The Indians as well as the Eskimo occasionally pierced the septum of the nose, for nose pieces, while the Eskimo cut on each side a slit in the lower lip for the introduction of labrets.
This is taken by the sliding calipers and is the height from the lower alveolar point (highest point of the normal alveolar septum between the middle lower incisors) to the lowest point on the inferior border of the chin in the median line.
The nasalseptum is nearly always straight; the only departure from this condition is a 4 per cent incidence of convexity.
Then there are a set of transverse muscles in two parts--one narrow, forming the septum or partition between the nasal passages, and the other broader between the narrow part and the posterior longitudinal muscles.
With the growth of the body and the development of the lungs the diaphragm shifts its position until it becomes the septum between the thoracic and abdominal cavities.
From the mesoderm on the caudal side of the pericardium is developed the septum transversum, and in this the central tendon is formed.
Vesalius described the heart completely and suggested its mechanism, and yet could not get away from Galen's declaration that the blood passes through the septum of the heart.
In health the nasal septum is a bony or cartilaginous plate, as shown in A, Fig.
One treatment that was administered for nasal catarrh, from which I continued to be affected, caused erosion of the mucous membrane, and destruction of the bony septum which separates the two nostrils.
In early life the septum is flexible and may be bent or doubled by injury to the nose; but owing to its elasticity usually resumes its natural position and shape.
Occasionally deformities of the septum or other internal structures also polypi or tumors, are sources of constant irritation and accelerate catarrhal disease.
The location and extent of the deformity of the nasal septum necessarily gives opportunity for a variety of symptoms.
The septumbetween the two ventricles of the heart.
This is suspended or otherwise supported in a large vessel of water in such a manner that the parchment paper septum just dips below the surface.
In practical chemistry, the method of separating substances by 'diffusion' through a septum of gelatinous matter.
The tumor had passed into the right nose and perforated the septum so as to extend into the left.
This was all removed, leaving a hole in the septum about the size of a florin.
It adhered to the septum around the site of perforation.
As a principal ornament, the men, on particular occasions, thrust a bone or reed through the septum nasi, the hole through which is bored when they are young.
Again, he speaks of the blood filtering through the septum between the ventricles as if through a sieve, although he knows perfectly well from his dissection that the septum is quite impervious.
The wirreenuns would see that the septum of a child's nose was pierced at the right time, and their tribal marks cut on them.
To show that the occasion was a sacred one a sprig of Dheal tree was placed through the hole in the septum of the nose.
Defn: A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.
Defn: Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts.
Defn: A small bone between the nasalseptum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.
The interauricular septumis mostly entirely membranous; in the middle it is thinner, rather transparent, but there is no depression or fossa ovalis.
The nasal septum is often more or less incomplete, producing nares peniae, e.
Not only is the septum involved, but also the outer plates of the nasal cavity.
Deflection of the septum to the left may entirely obliterate (as in Fig.
Not only do deflection of septum and hypertrophy of the nasal bones occur, but the antrum (cavity behind the nose) may be almost entirely obliterated, while the upper jaw is arrested (Fig.
In such cases the deflected septum is due to the development of the outer plate and not vice versa.
Not only is the nasal septum involved, but also the bones of the face as well, producing a fulness on the long side of the face.
In Diaphus the luminous spots are crossed by a septum giving them the form of the Greek letter θ (theta).
In the berycoid fishes the ventral fins are always thoracic, the number of rays almost always greater than I, 5, and in all cases an orbitosphenoid bone is developed in connection with the septum between the orbits above.
There now begins a growth of the septum by which its edges become sharply corrugated, and the suture, or line of juncture of the septum and the shell, is thus angled.
The Kliketat are distinguished by having the lower part of the septum of the nose cut away.
The septum narium was bored, but there was seldom anything worn in it.
The nostrils are wide, and are rendered still more so by the custom of wearing a stick fixed transversely through the septum narium.
No teeth were deficient in their jaws; all had the septum narium perforated, but without wearing any appendage in it.
The interorbitalseptum is pierced by the very prominent =optic foramen= (fig.
The interorbital septum is mainly cartilaginous, the presphenoidal and orbitosphenoidal regions remaining unossified.
The centrum of each of the caudal vertebrae of most Lacertilia is traversed by an unossified septum along which it readily breaks.
This leads into the cranial cavity behind, and in front is continued forwards as a groove between the interorbital septum and the frontal.
The occipital segment is completely ossified, and an interorbital septum or bony partition separating the two orbits is usually developed to a greater or less extent.
In the Cats it is very prominent, and its cavity is almost divided by a septum into two parts, the inner of which contains the auditory ossicles.
Nasal septum terminating before reaching lower end of nasals, and ridge on latter low and traversing left nasal.
Anterior face of latter strongly concave, with only a moderate median ridge completing nasal septum above.
Proximal end of vomer anchylosed with anterior face of nasals and reaching up to nasal boss, which has a sharp median ridge completing nasal septum superiorly.
Vomer at proximal end touching lower end of nasals, and nasal septum continued behind and above it as a low ridge, composed of the inner edges of the two nasal bones and reaching up to the nasal boss.
In the cavity of the skull is a septum of bone separating the cerebrum from the cerebellum (i.
Again, in the family Amphiastraeidae there is commonly a single septum much larger than the rest, and it has been shown that in the young calicles, e.
In addition to these parts the following structures may exist in corals:--Dissepiments are oblique calcareous partitions, stretching from septum to septum, and closing the interseptal chambers below.
In this Devonian genus there is a single semicircular operculum furnished with a stout median septum and numerous feebly developed secondary septa.
The remaining septa are so disposed that in the quadrants abutting on the chief septum they converge towards that septum, whilst in the other quadrants they converge towards the alar septa.
A statement which was in direct opposition to the generally received tradition of the time that the blood passed from the right into the left ventricle by concealed pores in the septum which separates the two cavities in the heart.
The septum so called because it separateth the right ventricle from the left, is that thick and fleshy substance set between the two cavities.
The septumcannot long withstand the continued compression, and by its destruction the chance of cure is greatly augmented.
The septum was destroyed by ulceration to a considerable extent, and a slight falling down of the middle of the nose followed.
The acute symptoms are swelling and discoloration of the integuments, turgescence of the Schneiderian membrane, which covers the septum narium and the turbinated bones, and consequent obstruction to the passage of air.
It has been proposed to destroy the projecting septumbetween the two portions of bowel, either by ligature or by the pressure of forceps; but this should not be attempted unless nature seems unable to effect a cure.
All the cartilaginous and part of the bony septum were destroyed; the morbid action ceased after having continued for a long time; but the organ was curtailed, sunk on the face, and altogether much deformed.
The septum suffers more than other parts of the nose, from the concussion produced by a blow, and is in general more seriously affected by the morbid action which is induced.
The external opening is dilated, and the situation of the septum ascertained.
The instrument is passed along the floor of the nostril, and then its point is directed upwards and outwards, whilst the handle is pressed towards the septum narium.
In dissecting off its posterior surface, care must be taken not to wound the septum of the scrotum.
If the fissures are not very wide—if the intermediate portion of bone, that adhering to the septum narium, is not prominent—and if the soft parts covering this are free and long, the operative procedure is simple.
Two or three vessels by the side of the septum may require ligatures.
The former method consists in including a considerable part of the septum in ligature, so as to induce condensation of the parts by effusion of lymph, and destruction of the projecting portion.
I may add, that frequently a pair of these bodies were attached to each other, as represented above, cone beside cone, at that end where the septum occurs.
The bleeding comes usually from one nostril only, and is a general oozing from the mucous membrane, or more commonly flows from one spot on the septum near the nostril, the cause of which we have just noted.
Deformity of the septum may obstruct the entrance of air into the nose and create suction on the walls of the nasal cavity, causing an overfilling of the blood vessels, or "congestion," with subsequent thickening of the mucous membrane.
Deviation of the nasal septum means displacement of the partition dividing the two nostrils, so that more or less obstruction exists.
Here, as in the eastern islands, the septum of the nose is pierced by a hole, but I rarely saw any ornament suspended from it.
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