Congenital
Congenital. -,- Congenital Dislocation Of The Bones Which Constitute The Radio-carpal Articulation May Be Considered Rare; Never Theless, I Have Seen Within These Few Years Thirteen Examples Of This Malformation. One, In Which The Bones Of The Forearm Were Thrown Forwards And The Carpus Backwards. In The Remaining Twelve Cases, ...
Continuity Of The Peri
Continuity Of The Peri Toneu M.—to Demonstrate The Unbroken Continuity Of The Peritoneum, We Are Compelled, In Description, To Trace It In Various Directions, Starting From A Certain Point And Following It Up Till, Having Performed A Complete Circuit, We Return Again To Our Starting Point. In Doing So We ...
Contractility
Contractility. — Since It Has Been Generally Understood, That All The Most Striking And Conspicuous Movements Which Take Place In Living Animals, Depend On Peculiar Contrac Tions Of Certain Of Their Solids, The Circum Stances Of These Contractions, The Causes By Which They Are Excited, And The Laws By Which ...
Coverings Op The Nervous
Coverings Op The Nervous Centres. Coverings Of The Ganglions. — Every Ganglion Is Covered By A More Or Ia. Dense Layer Of White Fibrous Tissue, Similar To That Which Forms The Neurilemma Of Nerves. It Per Forms Precisely The Same Office For The Elements Of The Ganglions That The Neurilemma ...
Cowpers Glands
Cowper's Glands — (giandidc8 Coseperi, Gladnulce Antiprostaticce Vel Prostaticce Inferiores) Are Two Glands Situated Beneath The Anterior Portion Of The Membranous Part Of The Urethra, Just Behind The Bulb, Between The Layers Of The Triangular Ligament. A Few Fibres Of The Compressor Urethr? Pass Beneath Them. Some Times A Single ...
Cranium
Cranium (in Anatomy) Gr. /egavcoy; Fr. Crane ; Germ. Hirnschadel ; Ital. Cranio. The Cranium Is The Protective Investment Of The Brain, On Which It Is Moulded, And The Form Of Which, In Warm-blooded Animals, It Represents. It Also Incloses And Protects The Organ Of Hearing. In Cold-blooded Animals There ...
Crural Or Femoral Hernia
Crural Or Femoral Hernia Takes Place At The Superior And Internal Part Of The Thigh, Below The Fold Of The Groin ; The Intestine Pass Ing Out Of The Abdomen Behind Poupart's Liga Ment, Between It And The Transverse Ramus Of The Pubis, Through An Aperture That Has Been Termed ...
Crustacea
Crustacea. Eng. Crustaceans ; Germ. Krustenthiere; Fr. Crustaces —this Is The Name Given To A Class Of Articulated Animals, The Type Of Which We Have In The Common Crab And Lobster, And Which Is Essentially Distin Guished By The Conformation Of The Organs Of Circulation, Of Respiration, And Of Locomotion. ...