Duval's Artistic Anatomy: Completely Revised, with Additional Original Illustrations

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Cassell, limited, 1919 - Anatomy, Artistic - 348 pages
 

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Page 22 - ... showing the driving mechanism, the backs of the near test cards and the exposure disks so positioned in their circle of rotation as to give the details of their construction. The diameter of disks A and Z), when in position, is sufficient to cover all three test objects — the two near test objects one on the right and one on the left of the median plane of the observer and the far test object in the median plane; that of disk B, to cover only the near test object on the left; and that of disk...
Page 245 - Extensor ossis metacarpi pollicis, its tendon passing through the same groove on the outer side of the styloid process, to be inserted into the base of the first phalanx of the thumb. Relations. — The same as those of the Extensor ossis metacarpi pollicis.
Page 264 - It forms a fusiform muscle, which, passing downwards and inwards, terminates a little below the middle of the thigh in a long round tendon, which lies along the inner side of the popliteal space...
Page 249 - It is inserted into the radial side of the base of the first phalanx of the thumb, and slightly into the extensor tendon on the dorsum of the first phalanx.
Page 112 - Poupart's ligament and midway between the anterior superior spine of the ilium and the spine of the pubes.
Page 205 - Fascia. of the thoracic wall. The serratus posterior superior is much the smaller of the two ; it arises by a thin aponeurotic tendon from the lower part of the ligamentum nuchae ; from the spinous process of the seventh cervical, vertebra ; and from the spinous processes of the upper two or three thoracic vertebrae. It passes obliquely downwards and laterally, and is inserted into the outer surfaces of the second, third, fourth, and fifth ribs, a short distance anterior to their angles.
Page 233 - ... pronator radii teres, the flexor carpi radialis, ' the palmaris longus, and the flexor sublimis digitorum.
Page 96 - ... but also the breadth of the shoulders; secondly, by examining the upper limb hanging vertically beside the body, and noting to what level on the lower limb the extremity of the hand (nail of the middle finger) reaches. The relation of the span of the upper limbs to the height has been expressed long since by the formula known as the square figure of the ancients (Fig.
Page 118 - This articulation is an enarthrodial or ball-and-socket joint, formed by the reception of the head of the femur into the cup-shaped cavity of the acetabulum. The articulating surfaces are covered with cartilage...
Page 126 - We can see by actual measurements that in the female the diameter of the hips, though always less, differs very little from that of the shoulders. In the male, the distance from the head of one humerus to the corresponding part on the opposite side (interhumeral diameter] is on the average 15...

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