The Homologies of the Human Skeleton

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S. Highley, 1849 - 100 pagina's
 

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Pagina 17 - autogenous" elements. The italics denote the parts, more properly called processes, which shoot out as continuations from some of the preceding element. and are termed 'exogenous': eg the diapophyses or upper ' transverse processes,' and the zygapophyses, or the ' oblique ' or ' articular processes
Pagina 17 - I define a vertebra, as one of those segments of the endo-skeleton which constitute the axis of the body, and the protecting canals of the nervous and vascular trunks : such a segment may also support diverging appendages.
Pagina 11 - ... in one sense, inasmuch as, being repetitions of the same parts of the body, they bear in that respect the same relation to different animals. But homologous parts may be, and often are, also analogous parts in a fuller sense, viz. as performing the same functions : thus the fin or pectoral limb of a Porpoise is homologous with that of a Fish, inasmuch as it is composed of the same or answerable parts : and they are the analogues of each other, inasmuch as they have the same relation of subserviency...

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