Title: The cat : an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals
Identifier: catintroduction00miva (find matches)
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900
Subjects: Cats; Anatomy, Comparative
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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100 THE CAT. CHAP. IV. the phalanx is very much compressed laterally, ending distally in a sharp, vertically-curved process (a) like the upper beak of a bird of prey, and greatly flattened from side to side. A thin lamella of bone projects forwards (b) above and on each side of the base of this beak, enclosing a deep groove for the reception of the claw. Two small round extra bones, called sesamoid bones (s), are (as before said) placed beneath the junction of the proximal phalanx and metacarpal of each of the digits.
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Fig. 61.—Connexions of Right Humerus and Scapula. A. Seen within. B. Seen from above. a. Acromion process. ah. Fibres from acromion to capsule. 6. Tendon of biceps. c. Coracoid process. cc. Capsular ligament- ca. Coraco-clavicular ligament. ct. Clavicle. dh and ch. Fibres from coracoid to capsule or coraco-humeral ligament. is. Infraspinatus, cut short. Id. Latissimus dorsi, cut short. s. Sub-scapularis, cut short. sp. Supra-spivatus, cut short. t. Transverse fibres. § 9. The pectoral limb, as a whole, is connected with the dorsal part of the axial skeleton neither by cartilage nor ligament, but by muscular connexion only. It is, however, connected with the ventral part of that skeleton, namely, with the sternum and with the first rib, by ligamentous union. Such a union exists between the sternum and the rudimentary clavicle on the one part, and between the clavicle and the scapula on the other part; for the clavicle is connected with the coracoid process by a ligament called coraco-clavicular (Fig. 61, cc). The shoulder-joint is a remarkably free one, a)lowing the fore-leg to be rotated to a considerable extent in all directions. The cartila- ginous cup of the glenoid is deepened by a circular ligament (the glenoid ligament) which surrounds its margin. The joint is surrounded by a capsular ligament (ca), which extends down from the glenoid ligament round the head of the

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