. A text-book of agricultural zoology. Zoology, Economic. TELE SKULL. 289 The caudal vertebrae number sixteen to eighteen; they are reduced to little bony cylinders. No closed neural canal runs down them after the third or fourth vertebra. The skull or cranium (fig. 152), which articulates with the axis by two bony projections, the two occipital condyles (00), is divided into two regions, the cranial and facial The former is a bony box which contains the swollen part of the neural cord. OT AJdC- cxc- ST-. FiG. 152.—Skull of the Horse. OC, Occipital condyle; ST, styloid process; OT, occipital t
. A text-book of agricultural zoology. Zoology, Economic. TELE SKULL. 289 The caudal vertebrae number sixteen to eighteen; they are reduced to little bony cylinders. No closed neural canal runs down them after the third or fourth vertebra. The skull or cranium (fig. 152), which articulates with the axis by two bony projections, the two occipital condyles (00), is divided into two regions, the cranial and facial The former is a bony box which contains the swollen part of the neural cord. OT AJdC- cxc- ST-. FiG. 152.—Skull of the Horse. OC, Occipital condyle; ST, styloid process; OT, occipital tuberosity; P, parietal bone; AH, auditory region; Z, zygomatic process of teioporal bone; F, frontal bone; 0, orbit; L, lachrymal bone ; M, malar; jV, nasal bone; SM, supra-maxillary; OF, infranrbital foramen; PM, premaxillary; IT, incisor teetb; MT, molar teeth; IM inferior maxillary ; CP, coronoid process. the brain. The facial part constitutes the largest area of the skuU. The skull, which is an elongated pyramidal box in the horse, is built up of a great number of bones (fig. 153). Only a few of the more important can be mentioned here; for further details the reader must consult various works on osteology and veterinary anatomy. The cranium is surrounded by flat bones at the back: these T. 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 Theobald, Frederick Vincent, 1868-1930. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
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