The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development . plane, atvarious ages during its most rapidgrowth. 180. The fetal skull is verysmall, and oval at an early stage,as both the sensori-motor and in-tellectual centres have not yet be-gun to grow. The former beginsfig skuii Between to develop later in intra-uterine 1 hree and hour Months. life, and the latter the last of is beautifully shown in the configurations of the twofetal skulls. The first shows an oval, undeveloped brain,while the second exhibits the forcing out of the parietalbosses by the rapid evo
The theory and practice of infant feeding, with notes on development . plane, atvarious ages during its most rapidgrowth. 180. The fetal skull is verysmall, and oval at an early stage,as both the sensori-motor and in-tellectual centres have not yet be-gun to grow. The former beginsfig skuii Between to develop later in intra-uterine 1 hree and hour Months. life, and the latter the last of is beautifully shown in the configurations of the twofetal skulls. The first shows an oval, undeveloped brain,while the second exhibits the forcing out of the parietalbosses by the rapid evo-lution of the sensori-motor area of the brain,while the front of theskull appears station-ary, from the size of theconfiguration. Afterbirth and with increasein the age of the in-fants, there is noted agradual and steadyenlargement of thegreat circumference of the Skull, and, from Fig. 95.—Fetal Skull, Seven Months, Showing • r •? ,? 1 Forcing Out of the Parietal Bosses by the Develop- tniS, 01 ItS estimated ment of the Sensori-motor Area of GROWTH OF HEAD. 313 volume. The naso-occipital arc likewise increases atabout the same general rate as the great circum-ference. In comparing the naso-occipital arc with thegreat circumference, there is an increasing difference
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