Injuries and diseases of the jaws . taken, the antrum has been more or less correctly describedby all modern anatomists. Holden compares it aptlyenough to a triangular pyramid, with the base towards thenose and the apex towards the malar bone ; and mentionsthe occurrence of thin plates of bone which are oftenfound extending across the antrum. The most compre-hensive account, however, of the antrum in modern times isto be found in a paper by Mr. W. A. N. Cattlin, ,in vol. ii. of the Transactions of the Odonlological Society ofLondon, and by the kindness of that gentleman I am enabledto
Injuries and diseases of the jaws . taken, the antrum has been more or less correctly describedby all modern anatomists. Holden compares it aptlyenough to a triangular pyramid, with the base towards thenose and the apex towards the malar bone ; and mentionsthe occurrence of thin plates of bone which are oftenfound extending across the antrum. The most compre-hensive account, however, of the antrum in modern times isto be found in a paper by Mr. W. A. N. Cattlin, ,in vol. ii. of the Transactions of the Odonlological Society ofLondon, and by the kindness of that gentleman I am enabledto reproduce his valuable illustrations. ANATOMY OF THE ANTRUM. 141 As the result of the examination of a hundred specimens,Mr. Cattlin finds that, as a rule, the aatrum is larger in themale than in the female, and that it diminishes in size withextreme age. In the young subject, likewise, the cavity issmall, and its walls comparatively thick. Fig. 53 shows in a Fig. 53.
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