DESCRIPTION OF COLOURED PLATE, Showing a Dissection of a Cleft Palate; copied from the work on Practical Surgery, by the kind permission of Sir William Fergusson, Bart. The plate represents the posterior nares and upper surface of the soft palate. a. The levator palati; the dark line shows where it should be cut across. b. The inner bundle of fibres of the palato-pharyngeus forming the posterior pillar of the fauces; the black line indicates the place for division. c. The palato-glossus, with the mark for incision, if one should be deemed necessary. The tonsil lies between these two muscles. d. The tensor palati, the cartilaginous extremity of the Eustachian tube is in front of this letter. e. The posterior extremity of the inferior turbinated bone. f. The septum. 9, g. The uvula on each side stretched apart. |