Crossword-Solution: SPHENO 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There is a chapter or two of talk among the girls in the dissecting-room and the chemical laboratory, with much about the "spheno-maxillary fossa," the "dorsalis pedis," and the general whereabouts of "Scarpa's triangle." But these can be skipped, and the reader may get into the company of _Mona Maclean_ when she is less erudite, and more womanly.

The _chordoma_ is a rare form of tumour originating from the remains of the notochord in the region of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis or in the sacro-coccygeal region.

The spheno-frontal articulation is completely obliterated on the left, but traces of it remain on the right side.

The naso-palatine descend through the anterior palatine canal, and entering the palate at the incisive foramen (foramina of Stenson) assist in supplying the anterior portion, anastomosing with the terminations of the more important posterior or descending palatine, which find their way to the palate from the spheno-maxillary fossæ through the posterior palatine canals.

The researches of Welker upon the sphenoïdal angle of Virchow lead to the same conclusion, for in man the angle diminishes from the time of birth, whilst in the ape it is always increasing, so much so that sometimes it is effaced.