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The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)

[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 412

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412 Keen, Description of an Asymmetrical Skull. [April Art. XVII. — Description of an Asymmetrical Skull and of an Atlas in Two Segments. By W. W. Keen, M.D., of Philadelphia. (With two wood-cuts.) I. The skull which I shall briefly describe came from a negro subject, about 35 years of age,… … side, is so completely ossified on the left side that except near the mastoid process no trace of it is seen (see Fig. 1). The left parietal and the occi- pital are one bone. What is also unusual in such cases, the suture between the two parietal foramina is perfectly distinct. Next we notice the…

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