. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 382U.—Cyclopia. Compound orbit. (Knape.) 10 nasal proboscis, cyclopia, aprosopa, agenya, synotia, andabdominal eventration. Sympodia, which literally signifies foot-joined, in tera-tology, is made to include all cases of coalescence of thelower extremities, even those in which the feet or con-siderable portions of the lower limbs are absent. In someinstances a portion 011I3 of one limb is developed, whichis united by fusion with its more nearly perfect fello
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 382U.—Cyclopia. Compound orbit. (Knape.) 10 nasal proboscis, cyclopia, aprosopa, agenya, synotia, andabdominal eventration. Sympodia, which literally signifies foot-joined, in tera-tology, is made to include all cases of coalescence of thelower extremities, even those in which the feet or con-siderable portions of the lower limbs are absent. In someinstances a portion 011I3 of one limb is developed, whichis united by fusion with its more nearly perfect fellow, thesympodic limb being terminated by a single foot; this isan example of monopodia. Bilateral symmetry is usuallyobserved in sympodia. Figs. 3831 and 3832 exhibit the. Fig. 3830.—Cyclopia-(with Synotus and Eventration). (Vrolik.) external configuration and osteology of a case of sym-podia in the human subject, which is remarkably sugges-tive of the structure of the seal. In such cases the fusionis so complete as to entirely obliterate all traces of thegenitals, as well as the anal opening. This variety be-longs to the class of monsters which teratologists desig- REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. nate by the terms siren, symmeles, and sympodia sireni-formis. In the lower degrees of sympodia neither of thefeet is fused limb ter-minates as a 3833 and 3834represent the formand the bone9 ofsucli a case, whichhas been describedunder the term si-renomielia. Syndnctylus in-cludes every degreeof fusion of thefingers and toes.
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