Fractures and dislocations, diagnosis and treatment (1915)
Preston, Miller Edwin, 1879- [from old catalog], Stover, H. G. [from old catalog] · St. Louis, C. V. Mosby company · leaf 484
^, because of its situation and structure. It is composedof a soft, spongy tissue encased in a layer of compact bone, and issupported by the ribs and costal cartilages which act as a series ofsprings which absorb and modify shock. The sternum is usually ossified from six centers; one each, for… … Fig. 537.—The sternum. M., manubrium; X., xyphoid cartilage; C, clavicle. Thecostal cartilages are numbered in order. Considerable variation occurs in the ossification of this bone. Thelower sections of the gladiolus are not uncommonly ossified by twocenters for each segment, and in anomalous…
Fractures · Dislocations · X-rays
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