Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation: Opus V: Skeletal Systems
Ronald A. Bergman, PhD
Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
Ryosuke Miyauchi, MD
Peer Review Status: Internally Peer Reviewed
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Base of skull seen from above. Arrow indicates the Vesalian foramen |
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Base of skull seen from below. Arrow indicates the Vesalian foramen. |
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Five types of human skull. Of these, only the one in the upper left was considered by Vesalius to be normal ("natural"). Note absence of the coronal suture and presence of a metopic suture (arrow) in the upper middle figure. Note the metopic suture also in the lower left illustration (arrow). Note the horizontal suture of the zygomatic bone (long arrow) in the lower right figure. |
Authors's note: Arrows have been added for us in this Atlas.
From Vesalius, A. Fabrica, 1543. In Straus, W.L. Jr. and O. Temkin. Vesalius and the problem of variability. Bull. Hist. Med. 14:609-633, 1943.
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