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Big wing

Big wing [ala major – PNA (The anatomic nomenclature Parisian); ala magna – BNA (The anatomic nomenclature Basel), JNA (The anatomic nomenclature Yenskaya)] – in a form the similar to a wing of a bird, departing from inferiolateral department of a body of a bone up and knaruzh pair part of a wedge-shaped bone of a skull.

 
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