The artistic anatomy of the horse / by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, with twenty-four illustrations drawn on wood by the author.

  • Hawkins, B. Waterhouse (Benjamin Waterhouse), 1807-1894.
Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The artistic anatomy of the horse / by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, with twenty-four illustrations drawn on wood by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of the ear, and has a depression or hollow beneath for the articulation of the lower jaw. Anteriorly, this bone joins the extremity of the frontal, and continuing forward unites with the malar or cheek-bone (e), making up the zygomatic arch, and forming the greatest part of the orbit, which is completed by the lacrymal (f), a small facial bone at the inner corner of the eye. Immediately before the frontal is the nasal bone (g), one of the prin- cipal bones of the face, and covering the delicate mem- brane of the nose. The superior maxillary (h), is a large bone occupying the side of the face. It carries all the molar teeth or grinders and the tusk of the upper jaw. The nippers or incisor teeth are inserted in the pre-maxiUary (i), which uniting with the two bones last mentioned completes the frame-work of the nose. The lower jaw consists of two bones only, the inferior maxillaries (Jc). These are rounded at the hinder extremity of the jaw and terminate in two processes directed upwards. The terminal projection or condyloid process articulates, with the temporal bone at the base of the zygomatic arch, and forms the hinge on which the whole lower jaw moves. The second process, termed the coronoid, passes under the arch, and receives the lower end of the large temporal muscle which arises from the parietal bone, and is principally concerned in moving the jaw in the act of mastica- tion. There are also two small bones, in the lower part of the cranium, under the parietal, the sphe- noid, and ethmoid; they serve to connect the princi- pal bones of the skull, but as they are not visible