Practical human anatomy [electronic resource] : a working-guide for students of medicine and a ready-reference for surgeons and physicians . TWENTY-FIRST DISSECTION. POSTERIOR OF ELBOW, FOREARM, HAND, AND Dissection.—Extend the elbow, supinate the forearm, extend the wrist anddigits, and place the forearm and hand with their posterior surfaces uppermost. Terms of Relation.—Those used in describing the elbowand forearm are the general terms (page 2) anterior and pos-terior ; and the special terms proximal, distal,inner, and outer. For the hand and digits thefollowing special terms are


Practical human anatomy [electronic resource] : a working-guide for students of medicine and a ready-reference for surgeons and physicians . TWENTY-FIRST DISSECTION. POSTERIOR OF ELBOW, FOREARM, HAND, AND Dissection.—Extend the elbow, supinate the forearm, extend the wrist anddigits, and place the forearm and hand with their posterior surfaces uppermost. Terms of Relation.—Those used in describing the elbowand forearm are the general terms (page 2) anterior and pos-terior ; and the special terms proximal, distal,inner, and outer. For the hand and digits thefollowing special terms are used : proximal,distal, dorsal, inner, outer, and lateral. Bones and Hone Areas for Muscle Attach-ments, Plate 163.—The posterior surfaces of thedistal end of the humerus, of the ulna and ra-dius, and those of the bones of the carpus, meta-carpus, and digits (phalanges, phalangines, andphalangettes) form the osseous plane of this dis-section. The posterior surfaces of all these bones,except those of the carpus, present areas formuscle attachments. Dissection.—Make skin incisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 ofFigure 13 (if the dissection of the posterior of the arm haspreceded, this dissection incision


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