The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 382
i. When the angle is more acute, the weight of the body falls more on the outer portion of the head of the bone, and hence is distributed to the walls of the shaft through the groined arches above spoken of. The effect of this is, sometimes, that the starting point of the set of diverging… … being massed in the groined arches, and the neck consisting of a reticulation of bony tissue whose fibres have merely a general direction towards the compact substance covering in the head (Fig. 3). Now it must be obvious that in the first of the two conditions just described (Fig. 2), the cervix…
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