Medzičeľusť alebo rezáková kosť?
Intermaxillary Bone or Incisive Bone?

Summary/Abstract: There has been a discussion in the history of anatomy about the small bone os incisivum, whether it occurs only in animals or in humans as well. The bone itself in human’s body has already been described by Galen, A. Vesalius did not agree with his description. It was also known to F. Vicq d’Azyr, but he did not call it by its special name. J.W. Goethe is considered to be its discoverer in humans. The term os incisivum was used in 1774 by A. von Haller, in 1795 J.F. Blumenbach proposed to use the term os intermaxillare, the term premaxilla was originally used in comparative anatomy from the middle of the 19th century. The Slovak term medzičeľusť is the calque of the term os intermaxillare, or perhaps even better, of the German equivalent Zwischenkieferknochen, respectively Zwischenkiefer. In order to maintain the correct motivation and correlation with the Latin nomenclature, authors suggest changing the Slovak term to rezáková kosť, incisor bone.

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