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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...thenar, tibial, fibular, rotular and popliteal. These have been employed to some extent by later writers, but they are open to at least three objections: they are specific instead of general; the bones from which they are derived are not recognizable in "fishes;" with many mammals, the ulna and radius are crossed instead of parallel, and with some the ulna and tibia are but slightly developed. Huxley and some other English anatomists have employed the general terms preaxial, postaxial, epaxial, and hypaxial. But these words are liable to misconception because axial has been used already in reference to not only the axis vertebra, but also the entire skeleton of the trunk as contradistinguished from that of the limbs. Perhaps the chief objection to all these terms is that they are not really necessary, and introduce undesirable verbal complications. The limbs are certainly part of the body, and whether or not, as held by Thacher (1) and Mivart (1), they are essentially and primarily only isolated and differentiated portions of continuous lateral fold, there seems to be a general assent to Huxley's proposition (4) that, for comparison, the limbs should be regarded as extended laterad at right angles loith the soma. Hence it seems to us most natural to apply to the aspects of the limbs the same terms which are applied to the corresponding regions of the soma. Thus each limb presents a dorsal and a ventral aspect, a cephalic and caudal aspect, and a proximal and distal end. § 46. Terms of General Application to the Whole Body.--Central and peripheral were proposed by Barclay, and have been very generally used by anatomists. They are especially applicable to the parts of the nervous and vascular systems, since the vessels and the nerves may be sai...
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