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Identifier: transactions07opht (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Publisher: London J. & A. Churchill
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s. n. to light and ace. Movements of eyesfull. The boys appearance is very striking owing to thepeculiar form and disproportionately large size of hiscranium (See Plate) which is due to the presence of verylarge, symmetrically-placed bony tumours. The twolargest occupy the temporal regions, and extend above theears to the mastoid region, which latter is much enlarged ;the glenoid cavity is so altered that whenever he openshis mouth widely the lower jaw is partially dislocated andslips forwards. Other outgrowths, more or less conjoined,are found on the top of each frontal bone (giving asomewhat conical shape to the skull), at or near thesituation of the anterior and posterior fontanelles, and at » I DESCRIPTION OF PLATE YI. Illustrating Mr. Nettleships case of Multiple CongenitalHyperostoses of Skull with Optic Atrophy. The photographs from which the figures are copied werekindly taken by Mr. E. T. Collins, Senior House Surgeon to theMoorfields Hospital. Tram-: Onhth .)oc.Vbl.VII ^I /
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riU d. Frcm Photoq: aphs DcmielssmA Co Ink CONGENITAL HYPEROSTOSES OF 8KDLL. 223 the attachment of the cervical muscles to each side of theoccipital bone ; the latter ones cause an increase in thedepth of the median depression between the muscles. A bony tumour can also be easily felt on the upperpart of the wall of each orbit. The orbits seem toolarge for the eyes and too shallow^ so that not onlyare the eyes prominent, and the forehead flat, but thefinger can be passed back between eye and orbital wallmuch further than usual both above and below. Theinner canthi are 37 mm. apart, the outer canthi 85 mm.The root of the nose is very broad, and somewhat irregularin lateral outline ; a considerable gap can easily be feltin the continuity of the bones forming its sides, apparentlydue to a separation of the nasal process of the superiormaxillary from the corresponding process of the frontalbones ; the central ridge of the nose (nasal bones) is,however, continuous with the frentals. The ey

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