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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62 THE SKELETON OF THE CAT. mandibular fossa is lined with cartilage. A slender ligament passes from the angular process of the mandible caudad to the external auditory meatus, being attached' to the latter about 8 millimeters from its medial end. This is the stylomandib- ular ligament. V. BONES OF THE THORACIC EXTREMITIES. Scapula (Figs. 44 and 45).—The scapula may be described as a flat triangular bone with one angle rounded. It lies
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Fig. 44.—Scapula, Lateral Surface. Fig. 45.—Scapula, Medial Surface. /, fossa supraspinata; //, fossa infraspinata; IJI, fossa subscapularis; IV, fossa for teres major, a, vertebral border; h^ coracoid border; c, glenoid border; d, glen- oid angle and fossa; e, coracovertebral angle; /, glenovertebral angle; g, spine; h, tuberosity of the spine; /, metacromion; J, acromion; k, supraglenoidal tubercle; /, incisura scapuloe; »i, coracoid process; «, groove indicating portion of spine; o, o', ridges for attachment of muscle-fibres. beneath the muscles on the lateral face of the thorax near its cranial end. From its lateral surface there projects a flat ridge (Fig. 44, g), the Spine of the scapula. The ventral end of the ridge is free as a curved process, the acromion process (Fig. 44. »• The ventral angle of the scapula (d), the glenoid angle

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