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  • ATLAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLAS

    ATLAS, in Anatomy the Name of the first Vertebra of the Neck, which supports the Head. See VERTEBRA and NECK. It is so called in allusion to the celebrated Mountain Atlas in Africa, which is so high, that it seems to bear the Heavens; and to the Fable,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    The extremes of such lines are called the poles of the stone. See POLE and POLARITY. Axis, in anatomy, is the third vertebra of the neck; reckoning from the skull. See VERTEBRA. It is thus called by reason the two first vertebrae, with the head, move...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ACANTHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACANTHA

    ACANTHA, among some Anatomists, is applied to the hind, or posterior Protuberances of the Vertebra of the Back; forming what we call the Spina Dorsi. See VERTEBRA, and SPINA.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • AXILLARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AXILLARY

    the subclavian artery; which passing under the arm-pits, changes its name, and is called axillary. See ARTERY. The second vertebra of the back is also called axillary; in regard it is the nearest to the arm-pits. See AXIS and VERTEBRA. AXILLARY

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy
  • ASPHALITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALITES

    Anatomy, the fifth Vertebra of the Loins. See VERTEBRA. It is thus called because conceived as the Support of the whole Spine of the Loins; from the Privative α and σφαλλω I supplant.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ASPERA ARTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERA%20ARTERIA

    Fore-part of the Neck, before the Oesophagus: Its upper End is called the Larynx; from whence it descends to the fourth Vertebra of the Back, where it divides and enters the Lungs. See OESOPHAGUS, LARYNX, VERTEBRA, etc. It is formed of annular...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • Anatomyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy

    ANATOMY, or the Analysis of ANIMAL BODIES, and their PARTS, viz. Bones, as Cranium. Rib, Vertebra, Radius, Femur, Tibia. Sacrum, Pubis, Patella, &c. Their Articulation, Apophyses, &c. Muscles, Abductor, Adductor, Erector, Depressor, Deltoides,...

    • Type: Category
  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Book-keeping, &c. 38 ANATOMY, or the Analysis of ANIMAL BODIES, and their PARTS, viz. Bones, as Cranium. Rib, Vertebra, Radius, Femur, Tibia. Sacrum, Pubis, Patella, &c. Their Articulation, Apophyses, &c. Muscles, Abductor, Adductor, Erector, Depressor,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
  • AZYGOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AZYGOS

    of the cava.—It descends through the right side of the cavity of the thorax, and at its arrival at the eighth or ninth vertebra, begins to keep the middle, and sends forth on each side, intercostal branches to the interstices of the eight lower ribs;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy
  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    Nerves, or Accessorius Willisii, or Par accessorium, in Anatomy, a Pair of Nerves, which arising from the Medulla in the Vertebra of the Neck, ascend and enter the Skull, and pass out of it again, with the vagus nerve, wrapped up in the same common...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • APOPHYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/APOPHYSIS

    of a Bone; being a part eminent or jutting out beyond the rest. See BONE, PROCESS, etc. Such are the Eminences of the Vertebrae, the Scapula, Thigh-bone, etc. See VERTEBRA, SCAPULA, etc. Apophyses Olfactoriae, are the Beginnings of the olfactory Nerves;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy
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