aponeurose de musculo occipital y frontal
Explanation:
Something is amiss here.
Galen used 'aponeurosis' of 'the end of a muscle, where it becomes tendinous' (LSJ). It is in fact derived from 'aponeurousthai', 'to become tendinous', although he also uses this verb simply to mean 'to become a nerve'. This is Greek.
'Galea' is Latin for 'helmet'; 'galeatus' (plural 'galeati') means 'armed with a helmet' (from 'galeare', 'to cover with a helmet'). But here it seems to refer to the subcutaneous plate in the back of the skull. This is congruous with (Latin) 'occipitalis' (from 'occiput', 'back of the head'), but it seems to contradict 'frontalis', which refers to the forehead (Latin 'frons').
Thus I must conclude that this muscle extends from the back of the head over the pate and down into the forehead, or vice versa, so that it is unclear where the muscle becomes tendinous.
'Galea aponeurotica' could therefore be rendered as 'the plate in the back of the skull whose muscle terminates in a tendon', but whether it terminates in the forehead or in the occiput is hard for a non-anatomist like myself to say.
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