Identifier: anatomydescripti1887gray (find matches)
Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919, ed Keen, William W. (William Williams), b. 1837
Subjects: Human anatomy Anatomy
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Base of the Skull, inner or cerebral surface. 206 THE SKELETON. The Anterior Fossa is formed by the orbital plate of the frontal, the cribriformplate of the ethmoid, the ethmoidal spine, and the lesser wing of the sphenoid. Itis the most elevated of the three fossae, convex externally where it corresponds tothe roof of the orbit, concave in the median line in the situation of the cribriformplate of the ethmoid. It is traversed by three sutures—the ethmo-frontal, ethmo-sphenoidal, and fronto-sphenoidal—and lodges the anterior lobe of the cerebrum.It presents, in the median line, from before backward, the commencement of thegroove for the superior longitudinal sinus and the crest for the attachment of thefalx cerebri; the foramen ccecum, an aperture formed by the frontal bone and thecrista galli of the ethmoid, which, if pervious, transmits a small vein from the noseto the superior longitudinal sinus; behind the foramen caecum, the crista galli, theposterior margin of which affords

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