A handbook of surface antomy and landmarks / by Bertram C.A. Windle.

  • Windle, Bertram C. A. (Bertram Coghill Alan), 1858-1929.
Date:
1896
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Credit: A handbook of surface antomy and landmarks / by Bertram C.A. Windle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A HANDBOOK OF SURFACE ANATOMY. Chapter I. THE FACE. I. The Face. Bony points,—The forehead presents on either side two elevations, the frontal eminences, A-arying consider- ably in the amount of their development in different in- dividuals. Below and separated from these by a shal- low groove is a supra-ciliary ridge on each side. These ridges which also vary greatly in size may, but need not necessarily, owe their prominence to large cavities in the substance of the bone—the frontal sinuses. This is a fact of surgical importance, since a fracture of this ridge apparently deep and serious may not open up the cranial cavity, but only that of the sinus. Like other air cavities in connection with the cranial and facial bones, these sinuses are small or non-existent in the young child, developing gradually in the course of growth. Between the supra-ciliary ridges is a flat B