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B, within which the "torcular Herophili" is situated, and from this point passing through the median line of the vertex forwards to Z the frontal sinus, the trephine should not be applied, as this line marks the locality of the superior longitudinal sinus.

Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

Herophilus, ille anatomicorum coryphæus, as Vesalius calls him, was a pupil of Praxagoras, and his name is still in everyday use by medical students, attached to the torcular Herophili.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine 1921

The angle of union of the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses is named the confluence of the sinuses (torcular Herophili25), and its position is indicated by a depression situated on one or other side of the protuberance.

II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone 1918

The Confluence of the Sinuses (confluens sinuum; torcular Herophili) is the term applied to the dilated extremity of the superior sagittal sinus.

VII. The Veins. 3b. 5. The Sinuses of the Dura Mater 1918

The columns of blood coming in different directions were supposed to be pressed together at this point (torcular, a wine press).

II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone 1918

Herophilus, after whom the torcular herophili within the skull is named, and who invented the term calamus scriptorius for certain appearances in the fourth ventricle.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

Herophilus, ille anatomicorum coryphaeus, as Vesalius calls him, was a pupil of Praxagoras, and his name is still in everyday use by medical students, attached to the torcular Herophili.

The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884

If the murex has not changed its quality, if the press (torcular) is still there to receive its one vintage, it must be the fault of the labourers that the dye is not forthcoming.

The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

You shall have more juyce by pressing the Quinces in a torcular, but it will be clearer, doing it with your hands; both ways, you lap them in a strainer.

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634

He distinguished the blood sinuses of the skull, and the _torcular Herophili_ (winepress of

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various