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Claudens Nasum Internus.
THis is much like the former as to its bigness,* 1.1 lodging in∣wardly under the Membrane which covereth the Nose from the Bone, it ariseth from the end of the Bone of the Nose, and is expanded into the Alam Nasi, and doth con∣stringe it; this is very small, and very rarely found out, unless in such Nasute Persons whose general Series of Muscles are very apparent, thicker, and larger than ordinary.
There is also another Constrictive Muscle, which hath gotten the name of Orbicularis common to the upper ••ip, the which drawing the ••ip downwards, doth also therewith shut up and close the Nostrils; And this Bartholinus describes in Fol. 358. Anatom. where he affirms, That he hath observed an Appendix hereof to descend to the upper Lip, and that in such People who could not lift up their Nose without their Lips.
This Muscle with its former is not to be shewn by Figures, they being so very small.