Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s2.t1.1
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s2.t1.1
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1. Akṣaka or akṣa, also aṃsa or aṃsaka, clavicle or collar-bone (Fig. 11). All three writers, Ātreya-Charaka, Suśruta, and Vāgbhaṭa I, in their lists (§§ 4, 27, 37), correctly state the number of these bones to be two.