. Anthropology. thmoid represent the body of each of three vertebras. The largeflat portion of the occipital, temporal, and frontal is called thesquamous portion, or ecaille (shell). These bones come under thedenomination of flat bones. They have an internal surface, whichlooks towards the cranial cavity, called by M. Broca mdocrdne,and an external surface. The body of the occipital (0, Kg. 2) is formed by the basilarprocess, which is united to the body of the sphenoid by an im-portant articulation, the basilar suture. Its surface is transverselydivided by a semicircular ridge, for the attachm
. Anthropology. thmoid represent the body of each of three vertebras. The largeflat portion of the occipital, temporal, and frontal is called thesquamous portion, or ecaille (shell). These bones come under thedenomination of flat bones. They have an internal surface, whichlooks towards the cranial cavity, called by M. Broca mdocrdne,and an external surface. The body of the occipital (0, Kg. 2) is formed by the basilarprocess, which is united to the body of the sphenoid by an im-portant articulation, the basilar suture. Its surface is transverselydivided by a semicircular ridge, for the attachment of the muscles 32 PHYSICAL CHARACTERS. [Chap. i. of the neck, the middle portion of which is occupied by the inlon,or external occipital protuberance; the portion above, or sur-occipital, is separated during a part of intra-uterine existence, andexceptionally in the adult, and is designated the interparietal, orsub-occipital bone. The portion below has a second curved line,also for the attachment of Pig. 2.—F, Frontal bone ; P, Parietal; 0, Occipital; T, Temporal; S, Greater wings of thesphenoid: the body of the bone is underneath; M, Superior maxilla; J, Malar orjugal bone ; N, Bones of the nose, or nasal bones; A, Median portion of the arch,or superior alveolar border, called point alvcolaire ; E, Nasal spine, or point soiis-nasal :G, Root of the nose, the bottom of which, is occupied by the naso-frontal suture, orpoint naml; V, Position of the centre of the coronal^ or fronto-parietal suture of thecranium, or J^regma ; L, Point where the parieto-occipital suture is \mited to that ofthe opposite side, and to the sagittal, or biparietal suture (not seen in the plate), orlambda ; I, External occipital protuberance, or inion; B, Mastoid processes ; V, Ex-ternal orifice of the auditory canal, also called trou, or point auriculaire ; Z, Zygomaticarch, formed, in front, by the malar bone, behind, by a process called the zygomatic^arising from the temporal bone ; D,
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