. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. Upper surface of foetal cranium. Diameters of the foetal cranium. diameters, must in no small measure be our guide to intelligent andskilful practice. Numerous measurements have been taken of thefoetal cranium, for the most part between points arbitrarily is, however, only the most important of these diameters with which VII.] MEASUREMENTS OF FCETAL CRANIUM. 135 the memory need be charged, viz., the occipito-frontal, the occipito-mental, and the biparietal; and, in addition to these, we shall ment
. A system of midwifery, including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state. Upper surface of foetal cranium. Diameters of the foetal cranium. diameters, must in no small measure be our guide to intelligent andskilful practice. Numerous measurements have been taken of thefoetal cranium, for the most part between points arbitrarily is, however, only the most important of these diameters with which VII.] MEASUREMENTS OF FCETAL CRANIUM. 135 the memory need be charged, viz., the occipito-frontal, the occipito-mental, and the biparietal; and, in addition to these, we shall mentiononly the trachelo-bi^egmatic and the fronto-mental. The Occipito-frontal, or long diameter of the oval cranium, is animaginary line, extending from the frontal eminences anteriorly to theocciput posteriorly. It is somewhat doubtful what some authors meanin this case by the occiput/7 but there is no doubt that most modernwriters, who are exact in the matter, describe it as terminating at thesummit of the occiput, or, in other words, at the posterior , during labor,
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