Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.t2.6

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3. The procedure, thus described, will doubtlessly enable the observer to recognize such structures as the clusters (*kūrca*) of small bones which make up the carpus and tarsus. But it would hardly suffice to enable him to discover bones lying interiorly; such, for example, as the ethmoid, sphenoid, vomer, and others in the interior of the head. As a matter of fact, we do not find these latter bones mentioned even in the more accurate list of Suśruta.