This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...thymic remains, left innominate vein; behind, trachea, esophagus, thoracic duct; left side, left subclavian artery, left vagus; right side, inferior thyroid veins and innominate artery, which is also somewhat in front. In the neck each carotid ascends from the sternoclavicular joint to the level of the upper border of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...thymic remains, left innominate vein; behind, trachea, esophagus, thoracic duct; left side, left subclavian artery, left vagus; right side, inferior thyroid veins and innominate artery, which is also somewhat in front. In the neck each carotid ascends from the sternoclavicular joint to the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, there dividing into the external and internal carotids. Each is enclosed, with the internal jugular vein and vagus, in a sheath of deep cervical fascia, the several structures being partitioned from one another within the sheath. The artery is internal, the vein external, the nerve between them, but in a posterior plane. Relations.--In front, integument, fascia, platysma, sternomastoid, hyoid, thyroid, and omohyoid muscles, descendens and communicans hypoglossi nerves, sternomastoid artery, superior, middle thyroid, and anterior jugular veins, and a branch connecting anterior jugular with facial; behind, longus colli, rectus anticus major, spinal column, inferior thyroid artery, sympathetic and recurrent laryngeal nerves; outer side, internal jugular vein, vagus; inner side, trachea, esophagus, larynx, pharynx, thyroid gland, inferior thyroid artery, and recurrent nerve. In the lower part of the neck the internal jugular diverges from the artery on the right side, but approaches, and may cross it, on the left. The common carotid regularly gives off no branches, but a vertebral, thyroid, or laryngeal branch may arise from it on either side. The external carotid artery runs from the bifurcation of the common carotid to the space between the neck of the condyle of the mandible and the auditory meatus, and there divides into the superficial temporal and internal maxillary. At its origin it is anterior and internal to the int...
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