Anatomy, Artistic; Animals in art; Zoological illustration
1, Cranium; 2, face; 3, atlas; 4, axis; 5, seventh cervical vertebra; 6,
first dorsal vertebra; 7, fourteenth and last dorsal vertebra; 8, lumbar
vertebræ; 9, sacrum; 10, coccygeal vertebræ; 11, anterior extremity of
the sternum; 12, xiphoid appendix; 13, seventh and last sternal rib; 14,
costal cartilage; 15, cartilage of prolongation of the scapula; 16,
great tuberosity of the humerus; 17, olecranon process; 18, radius; 19,
ulna; 20, pisiform; 21, metacarpus; 22, phalanges of the two great toes;
23, phalanges of the external toe; 24, ilium; 25, pubis; 26, tuberosity
of the ischium; 27, great trochanter; 28, knee-cap; 29, anterior
tuberosity of the tibia; 30, fibula; 31, tarsus; 32, calcaneum; 33,
metatarsus; 34, phalanges of the two great toes; 35, phalanges of the
external toe.]
=Unguligrades=: =Pig= (Fig. 38).--The scapula is markedly narrowed in
the region above the glenoid cavity. The spine is atrophied at both its
extremities, so that at its inferior part we do not find the acromion
process. In its middle portion the spine is prominent, and presents a
triangular process which turns backwards, overlapping a part of the
infraspinous fossa; this latter is much larger than the supraspinous.
The spinal border is surmounted by the cartilage of prolongation, the
superior margin of which is convex; this cartilage extends posteriorly
beyond the posterior (axillary) border of the bone.
The small tuberosity of the superior extremity of the humerus is but
slightly developed; the great tuberosity, on the contrary, is very
large. The bicipital groove is situated internal to this. The deltoid
impression is scarcely marked.
The forearm is short, directed obliquely downwards and inwards, thus
forming with the hand an angle, of which the apex is directed inwards.
The two bones of the forearm are strongly bound to one another by an
interosseous ligament, which is formed of very short fibres. The radius
appropriates, at its superior extremity, the coronoid process of the
ulna. The latter is, notwithstanding, well developed in the rest of its
extent; it has a flattened shaft which almost completely overlaps the
posterior surface of the radius; its inferior extremity reaches to the
carpus.
The carpus is formed of eight bones--four in the superior row, and four
in the inferior. The third bone of the superior row (cuneiform) is more
in contact with the ulna than with the radius.
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