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Excerpt from Quain's Elements of Anatomy, Vol. 3 of 3: Organs of the Senses
In this Part will be described the organs of sight, hearing, and smell, and also the taste buds which was found on the tongue and other parts endowed with the sense of taste. The terminations of sensory nerves in the skin and elsewhere have already been described in Vol. I., Part 2, and will only be b briefly alluded to in reviewing the whole subject of the ending of nerves of special sense.
The Eye.
The organ of vision, strictly speaking, consists only of the ball or globe of the eye; but connected with the eyeball externally are muscles, nerves, and blood-vessels, elsewhere described, as well as other parts special destined for its protection (tulamsina oculi), of which an account will first be given.
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