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Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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cJirt/iiial duct), which conveys the tears from the eye into the nostrils. Malar Bone. — This is placed at the outer and inferior part of theorbit, where it sends a branch backward and joins the temporal bone toform the zygomatic arch, and the socket for the lodgment of the eyeand its muscles. Palatine Bones.—The palatine bones are situated at the back partof the roof of the mouth, and form a narrow border to the posterior naresor opening between the nostrils and the throat. 188 HEALTH AND DISEASE Pterygoid Bones.—These are two small slender bones placed imme-diately above the palate bones. On the outer side of each is a groove or pulley, through which a smalltendon plays, belonging to the muscle (tensor j^f^lati) that tightens upthe palate in the act of swallowing. The Vomer.—A single bone running along the whole length of thefloor of the nasal cavities, wdiere it occupies a central position. Its anteriorborder is deeply grooved, and gives lodgment to a Hat piece of cartilage
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^ Coronoirl Process. - Condyle. Fig. 290. —Lower Jaiv ^ Molar Teeth. ■* Mental Foramen,attachment of Masseter Muscle. Incisor Toeth. (septum nasi) by which the nasal passages are divided one from theother. Turbinated Bones.—These are four in number, two situated in eachnasal passage, where they are attached to the outer walls one above theother. They are long, thin, fragile plates of bone, folded upon themselvesinto rolls, which extend nearly from one extremity of the iio.se to theother. They are covered with mucous membrane, and afford a largesurface for the distribution of the nerves of smell (olfactonj nerves), andfor the secretion f)f mucus. Inferior Maxillary Bone or Lower Jaw.—This is a single bone composed of two flattened branches, which converge from above down-ward, and unite in front to form the bodv. It is the largest bone of THE TilUllAX V\l CHEST 189 the face. It eanies six molar teeth, or grinders, on each side, and sixincisor teeth in front. In addition, it als

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