On stertor, apoplexy, and the management of the apoplectic state . us membrane and its muscles, has itsrelations with surrounding parts altered as the mouth isopened or closed. When the mouth is closed, the horizontal portion orbody of the jaw forms nearly a right angle with the spinalcolumn, from which the symphysis is then at its greatestdistance. When the mouth is opened by the dropping ofthe jaw, the symphysis describes the arc of a circle, andapproaches more nearly to the spine, where the posteriorwall of the pharynx is attached (see frontispiece and Fig. i).The tongue, having its chief a
On stertor, apoplexy, and the management of the apoplectic state . us membrane and its muscles, has itsrelations with surrounding parts altered as the mouth isopened or closed. When the mouth is closed, the horizontal portion orbody of the jaw forms nearly a right angle with the spinalcolumn, from which the symphysis is then at its greatestdistance. When the mouth is opened by the dropping ofthe jaw, the symphysis describes the arc of a circle, andapproaches more nearly to the spine, where the posteriorwall of the pharynx is attached (see frontispiece and Fig. i).The tongue, having its chief attachment to the symphysis,would consequently be drawn away from the pharynx inthe former case, and allowed to rest in contact with it inthe latter. This, if not true in every case, is at least truein some, as the plate demonstrates (see Fig. 2). The dissection from which the drawing was taken wasmade with great care, so as not to displace the parts morethan was necessary to give a fair view of the base of thetongue and the epiglottis. The two sketches, with the. Fig. I. — Showing the position of the tongue with the mouth closed.
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