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Identifier: b20416039_001 Title: On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] Year: 1866 (1860s) Authors: Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 Subjects: Anatomy, Comparative Vertebrates Fishes Reptiles Mammals Birds Publisher: London : Longmans, Green Contributing Library: Wellcome Library Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: diagrammaticallyshows the peritoneum re-flected from the vertebralcentrum upon the aortaland caval trunks, h, thespleen, b, and stomach, a,whence it is continued toform the omental fold, e, c:from the ventral surfacethe peritoneum is reflectedat one small part upon theremains of the umbilicalvein, forming the so-calledi falciform, g, and i round,d, ligaments of the liver.In the Crocodilia the peri-toneum does not extend forward beyond the stomach and liver,but is reflected upon the posterior (sacral) surfaceof both organs,1 circumscribing a smaller ( abdo-minal cavity, and including fewer viscera, than in.Mammals. In female Reptiles, the serous membrane ofthe abdomen is continuous with the mucous mem-brane of the oviducts; the subhexagonal or poly-gonal flattened cells of its epithelium giving placeto the ciliated epithelial cells at the margin of theoviducal aperture. In both male and femaleChelonia, the peritoneum is continued, as an in-fundibular canal, into the 6 corpus cavernosum

Text Appearing After Image: Abdominal cavity and viscera, Draco volans. CCL. 293

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