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Title: Anatomy of the cat
Identifier: anatomyofcatrje00reig (find matches)
Year: 1991 (1990s)
Authors: Reighard, Jacob Ellsworth, 1861-1942; Jennings, H. S. (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947
Subjects: Cats; Mammals
Publisher: (Austin, TX) : BookLab, Inc.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE SKULL. 55 Caudally there appear in the ventral view the foramen magnum (a), occipital condyles (/;), and jugular processes (c). (n front of the jugular processes the two tympanic bullae (d) form prominent features, with the mastoid process (e), the stylomastoid foramen (/), and the external auditory meatus
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Fig. 41.—Skull, Ventral View. I, occipital bone; 2, temporal; 3, sphenoid; 4, presplienoid; 5, frontal; 6, malar; 7, vomer; 8, palatine; 9, maxillary; 10, preniaxillary. a, foramen magiuim; f>, occipital condyles; c, jugular process; d, tympanic bulla; e, mastoid process; f, stylo- mastoid foramen; g, external auditory meatus; //, jugular foramen; /, styliform proc- ess; J, groove for Eustachian tube; k, foramen ovale; /, foramen rotiindum; w, pterygoid pirocess of sphenoid; ;/, perpendicular plate of jialatine; o, ciioanse or pos- terior nares; /, zygomatic arch; q. cranial end of posterior palatine canal; r, pala- tine grooves; s, foramina incisiva or anterior palatine foramina; /, opening of ptery- goid canal. (g) on their lateral surfaces. All these structures have been described. The tympanic bulla; (d) are placed with long axes directed craniomediad, so that they converge toward their cranial ends. At the caudomedial angle of each bulla is the

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