The cat - an introduction to the study of backboned animals, especially mammals (1881) (19964257324)

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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476 THjE CAT. (chap. xm. If we examine the basis cranil of a bear (Fig. 193) we see that its auditory bulla consists of a single bone, instead of two as in the cat. It is but little prominent, but is much prolonged outwards as the mice
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Fig. 193.—Part of Basis Cranii of Bear (Flower). a. Posterior opening of ali-sphenoid canal. a'. Anterior opening of same canal. c Condyloid foramen. car. Carotid foramen. e. Eustachian canal. Immediately above the right-hand end of the line leading from the letter c, is a large opening—the foramen lacerum anterius— at which the carotid artery reappears, after having traversed the petrosal, and bending round the skull to re-enter the skull at this foramen. g. Glenoid foramen. I. Foramen lacerum posterius. m. Mastoid process. ma. Meatus auditorius externus. o. Foramen ovale. p. Par-occipital process. s. Stylo-mastoid foramen.. floor of the bony meatus auditorius externus (ma). Towards its hinder inner end is a considerable foramen (car) for the internal carotid artery, which here enters the petrosal, and having traversed