It is almost completely invested by peritoneum, and is connected to the inferior border of the pancreas by a large and wide duplicature of that membrane, the transverse mesocolon.
12.
The inferior border is fused with the lateral edge of the horizontal part, and immediately in front of the pyramidal process is grooved by the lower end of the pterygopalatine canal.
13.
Long standing buccal abscesses tend to spontaneously drain via a cutaneous sinus at the inferior of the space, near the inferior border of the mandible and the angle of the mouth.
14.
These two portions of the inferior border are separated from one another by the jugular process, the notch on the anterior surface of which forms the posterior part of the jugular foramen.
15.
Passing obliquely upward and lateralward, it becomes fleshy, and divides into four flat digitations, which are inserted into the inferior borders of the lower four ribs, a little beyond their angles.
16.
The posterior set passes superiorly and medially from the crest on the superior border of the neck of the rib to the inferior border of the transverse process of the vertebra immediately superior to it.
17.
Secretions are delivered into the palpated ( felt ) inferior and posterior to the body of the mandible, moving inward from the inferior border of the mandible near its angle with the head tilted forwards.
18.
About half of this enters the fetal " ductus venosus " and is carried to the inferior vena cava, while the other half enters the liver proper from the inferior border of the liver.
19.
The "'inferior borders "'extend from the lateral angles to the inferior angle; the upper half of each articulates with the mastoid portion of the corresponding petrous part of the same bone.
20.
Signs and symptoms of a submandibular space infection might include trismus ( difficulty opening the mouth ), inability to palpate ( feel ) the inferior border of the mandible and swelling of the face over the submandibular region.
