. Mammalian anatomy : with special reference to the cat . Mammals; Anatomy, Comparative; Cats. 24 ELEMENTS OF MAMMALIAN -b md A tubercle is a small and usually more or less pointed process. A condyle is a rounded and somewhat elongated smooth articular process. The distal end of the femur presents a pair of condyles (Fig. 40). A fossa is an irregular depressed area (Fig. 30). A foramen is an aperture for the pas- sage of vessels or nerves. The shaft is the body or middle por- tion of an elongated bone. The head is a spheroidal prominence at one end of an elongated bone (Fig. 40). The
. Mammalian anatomy : with special reference to the cat . Mammals; Anatomy, Comparative; Cats. 24 ELEMENTS OF MAMMALIAN -b md A tubercle is a small and usually more or less pointed process. A condyle is a rounded and somewhat elongated smooth articular process. The distal end of the femur presents a pair of condyles (Fig. 40). A fossa is an irregular depressed area (Fig. 30). A foramen is an aperture for the pas- sage of vessels or nerves. The shaft is the body or middle por- tion of an elongated bone. The head is a spheroidal prominence at one end of an elongated bone (Fig. 40). The epiphysis is a small process of bone ossified from a separate center. In the young animal it is attached to the main bone by cartilage, but in the adult becomes a part of the main bone (Fig. 12). The femur has four epiphyses, one for the head, one for the distal ex- tremity, and one for each trochanter proc- ess (Fig. 40). With the exception of the phalanges, metacarpals, and metatar- sals, all of the long bones have an epi- physis at each extremity. In the human, these epiphyses do not unite with the shaft before the sixteenth year. Diploe is the spongy layer of bone between the compact surface layers of the flat bones (Fig. 18). The articulation of a bone has reference to its contact with other bones by means of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davison, Alvin, 1868-1915. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston
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