The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 412
ular emi- nence of the occiput ; but sometimes the rim is wanting on the outer side so that the lower part of the wall of the fossa is formed on that side by the tympanic plate. A blunt crest (c)2 separates the fossa from the aqueductus cochleae and runs into the processus infrqjugularis (d), a… … From this slightly amplified description of the most common form we pass to that of the least frequent, which is extremely puzzling to the student if he follows, as he should, the book on the bone. There is no thimble-shaped depression whatever, but merely an entering angle formed by two rough…
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