Anatomy, Artistic; Animals in art; Zoological illustration
1, Cranium; 2, face; 3, atlas; 4, axis; 5, seventh cervical vertebra; 6,
first dorsal vertebra; 7, thirteenth and last dorsal vertebra; 8, lumbar
vertebræ; 9, sacrum; 10, coccygeal vertebræ; 11, sternum; 12, xiphoid
appendix; 13, eighth and last sternal rib; 14, costal cartilages; 15,
spine of scapula; 16, cartilage of prolongation of the scapula; 17,
great tuberosity of the humerus; 18, musculo-spiral groove; 19,
olecranon process; 20, radius; 21, carpus; 22, pisiform; 23, metacarpus;
24, rudimentary metacarpal; 25, sesamoid bones; 26, first phalanges; 27,
second phalanges; 28, third phalanges; 29, anterior iliac spine; 30,
pubis; 31, tuberosity of the ischium; 32, great trochanter; 33,
supracondyloid fossa of the femur; 34, patella, or knee-cap; 35,
anterior tuberosity of the tibia; 36, fibula; 37, coronoid tarsal bone;
38, tarsus; 39, calcaneum; 40, metatarsus; 41, rudimentary metatarsus;
42, sesamoid bones; 43, first phalanges; 44, second phalanges; 45, third
phalanges.]
The great tuberosity of the humerus is highly developed; its summit,
very prominent, is flexed over the bicipital groove; a prominence of the
small tuberosity also bends over the groove, with the result that at
this level the latter is converted into a sort of canal. At the inferior
extremity the condyle, although not large, is recognisable; for it is
separated from the trochlea by a depression in form of a groove. In
contrast to the condition found in man, the condyle descends to a level
a little below that of the internal lip of the trochlea. (For the
arrangement of the epicondyle and the epitrochlea, see p. 30.) In the
sheep, the deltoid impression is but slightly marked; in the ox, it is
more evident.
The forearm is directed obliquely downwards and inwards, so as to form,
with the hand, an angle of which the apex is internal; this angular
outline of the _knee_ (wrist) is so characteristic of ruminants that the
corresponding region of the horse, when salient inwards, receives the
name of _ox-knee_. The radius bears the coronoid process, and the larger
part of the articular surface which comes in contact with the inferior
extremity of the humerus; the condyle and the trochlea articulate with
the radius in front; while behind, the trochlea articulates with that
part of the sigmoid cavity which belongs to the ulna. The posterior
surface of the shaft of the radius is flattened; its anterior surface is
slightly convex. The inferior extremity articulates with the carpus by a
surface which is directed obliquely downwards and inwards. The shaft of
the ulna is very slender, and fused in its middle third with the body of
the radius; it terminates below, at the level of the external part of
the inferior extremity of the radius, by a slightly expanded portion
which, fused with this latter, forms the articular surface for the
carpal bones.
In the ox the forearm is short; in the sheep it is proportionally
longer.
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