SKULL

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SKULL , the

skeleton

SKELETON

of the head, composed of 22 bones, 8 of which form the

skeleton

SKELETON

of the cranium, 14 that of the

face

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

. Except the

lower

LOWER

jaw, which is movable, the bones are all firmly

united

UNITED

by immovable

joints

JOINTS

. In the following

article

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

it is considered more profitable to treat the skull as a whole than to detail the bones separately, and for this purpose a normal

European

EUROPEAN

skull will be studied from in front (norma facialis), from above (norma verticalis), from the

side

SIDE
SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

(norma lateralis), from behind (norma occipitalis) and from below (norma basalis). Afterwards the interior of it will be considered by means of
sections.

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