Functions Of Tiie Optic
Functions Of Tiie Optic Nerve. The Optic Nerves When Present Are Essential To Vision. In All Animals Which Possess Optic Nerves They Must Be Considered Essential To Vision, For Diseases Which Destroy The Organization Of The "second Pair " Invariably Deprive The Organs Of Sight Of Their Sensibility To Luminous ...
Functions Of The Tongue
Functions Of The Tongue.- The Phy Siology Of The Tongue, Like Its Organisation, Is Double, All Its Functions Being Referable Either To Those Sensory Or Muscular Endow Ments Which It Possesses In So Remarkable A Degree. Naturally, These Are Intimately Associated, Its Sensibility Being Necessary For The Direction Of Its ...
Gan Glia The Intimate
The Intimate Structure Of Nerves, Gan Glia, And Other Nervous Centres. Lceumen Hoeck, Opera Omnia, T. And Liv., 1722. Della Torre, Nuovi Osservazioni Microscopici, 1776. Prochaska, De Structure Nervorum, 1779. Munro, Microscopical Enquiries Into The Nerves And Brain, 1780. Fontana, Traite Du Venin De La Vipere, T. 1781. Scarpa, A ...
Gaseous Adventitious Products
Gaseous Adventitious Products. If The Precise Signification Given To The Term Adventitious Product Be Considered, It Will Be Seen That Gaseous Rnatters Are Only Truly Ad Ventitious When Foreign In Nature To The Textures Producing Them. Air Entering Veitis Lying Within The Suction-influence Of The Chest ; Air Swallowed; Air ...
Gasteropoda
Gasteropoda, (vacrriy, Venter, Wovc, By Ferussac, Of Which, As Svell As Of The 'vs; Eng. Gasteropods; Fr. Gastiropodes ; Systems Of Other Zoologists, An Outline Is Con Germ. Baucylisser ; Lllopnsro Repentia, Tained In The Following Table. Poli.) Definition.—an Extensive Class Of The Order I. Nudibranciiia'fil,* (cuv.) Luscous Division Of ...
Gasteropoda 17
Gasteropoda.) 17. Pteropoda, Body Organized For Swim Ming, Mantle Closed Above, Branchice External, No Muscular Foot For Creeping, Shell, When Present, Always Thin, Pellucid, Unilocular, And Inopercu!ate. These Soft, Minute, Floating Ani Mals Are All Marine, And Are Enabled To Swim By Means Of Two Lateral Musculo-cutaneous Fin Like Expansions, ...
Gelatin
Gelatin (fr. Gelatine; Germ. Lein. Gallerte). This Term Is Applied To An Im Portant Principle Obtained By Boiling Certain Animal Substances In Water, And Filtering Or Straining The Solution, Which, If Sufficiently Concentrated, Gelatinises, Or Concretes Into A Translucent Tremulous Mass On Cooling, Which May Be Again Liquefied And Gelatinised ...
General Appearance Of The
General Appearance Of The Articu Lated Pelvis.—when The Bones Of The Pelvis Are Articulated Together, Its Whole Ap Pearance Is That Of A Section Of A Cylinder Or Bent Tube, Having An Anterior, Posterior, And Two Lateral, And A Superior And Inferior Aspects. Its Anterior Aspect ( Fig. 80.) Is ...
General Development Of The
General Development Of The Pelvis. — In Common With The Inferior Extremities, The Pelvis, In The Infant, Is More Tardy In Arriving At Adult Perfection Than The Upper Parts Of The Body ; And This Delay Is More Evi Dent In The Inferior Or True Than In The Su Perior ...
General Remarks Upon Veins
General Remarks Upon Veins Origin ; Course ; Anastomoses ; Plex Uses, &c.— General Considerations Of Veins Are To Be Made Principally In Relation To Arte •ries, In Contrast With Which The Characteristics Of The Former Are Most Conspicuous. The General, The Pulmonary, And The Portal Venous Systems May Be ...
General Summary With Regard
General Summary With Regard To The Nature Of Iiermafrroditic Malforma Tions. 1. Of The Varieties Of Spurious Hermaphro Ditism.—on Some Of These Varieties It Is Un Necessary For Us To Dwell Here. The First Species Of Spurious Male Hermaphroditism, Or That Arising From Extroversion Of The Urinary Bladder, Is Elaborately ...
Generation
Generation (in Physiology) General° ; Fr. Generation; Germ. Zeugung ; Ital, Gene Razianc ;) Is The Process By Which The Young Of Living Bodies Are Produced, And Their Spe Cies Continued. In Common Language The Term Is Frequently Confined To The Mere Act Of Union Of The Sexes Of Animals; ...
Generation 479
Generation. 479 Much Less, Not Amounting To More Than Four Or Six In One Hundred.• Malformations Are Said To Occur More Fre Quently Among Illegitimate Than Legitimate Chil Dren ; And Malformed Children Are More Fre Quently Of The Female Sex. This, Together With The Circumstance That Illegitimate Children Are ...
Generative
Generative System.—the Individuals Of The Present Class Are, As Before Stated, Of Distinct Sexes, Which In The Dibranchiate Order Are Re Cognizable By Diversity Of Size, External Form, Colour And Shape Of The Internal Rudimental Shell. In The Common Calamary, For Example, The Gladius Of The Male Is One-fourth Shorter, ...
Gical Anatomy Of Tile
Gical Anatomy Of Tile Neck. The Posterior Parts Of The Neck Having Been Described In A Previous Article (see Back), The Present Will Be Restricted To An Account Of Its Anterior Aspect. The Cervical Vertebrx (by Their Bodies, Inter Vening Fihro-cartilaginous Discs, And Transverse Processes), Together With The Anterior And ...
Gland
Gland, Gr. Cars; Lat. Glandala ; Fr. Glande; Germ. Driise. An Organ Whose Dlice Is To Separate From The Blood A Peculiar Substance, Almost Invariably Fluid ; Constantly Provided With An Excretory Duct ; Formed Qf A Process Of The Mucous Mem Brane Or Qf The Skin, Disposed Either In ...
Gland 481
Gland. 481 Tended By These Writers That The Last Named Bodies Elaborate From The Blood Certain Fluids, And That As Far As The Real Function Of A Gland Is Concerned, It Matters Not Whether The Secreted Fluid Escapes By A Proper Excretory Duct, Or Is Taken Up By The Lymphatic ...
Gland 485
Gland. 485 (see The Biliary Organs Of 3telo1outlia L'ulguris, Fig. 38, Vol. I. P. 111.) In The Liver Of Alammalia And Alan, Both In The Embryo And After Birth, It Is Much More Difficult To Demonstrate The Ultimate Tubes With Their Crecal Extremities; Indeed The Existence Of Such Canals Is ...
Gland_2
Gland. Granules (the So Much Talked Of (who) Of The Liver And Other Conglomerate Glands. Such, Then, Arc The More Simple Forms Of The Glandular Organs; And If We Proceed To Those Are More Complex, Nu Difficulty Is Expe Rienced In Proving, By The Aid Of Comparative And Developmental Anatumy, ...
Glosso Pharyngeal Nerve
Glosso - Pharyngeal Nerve (nervus Glos.so-pharyugeus; Part Of The Sixth Pair Of Galen And The Older Anatomists ; Part Of The Eighth Pair Of Willis ; The Ninth Pair Of Soemmerring And Some Of The Modern Anato Mists). The Glosso-pharyngeal, Par Vagum, And Spinal Accessory Nerves Were Long Considered As ...
Glosso Pharyngeal Nerve Vagum
Vagum, Glosso-pharyngeal Nerve, And Spinal Accessory. Mouth, (gr. Crropcx; Lat. Os; Fr. Boucke.)— The Mouth Is An Oval Cavity, Symmetrical, And Situated At The Lower Part Of The Face, Below The Nasal Fosste, Between The Jaws, And In Front Of The Pharynx, With Which It Communicates By A Posterior Opening, ...
Glosso Piiaryngeal
Glosso-piiaryngeal,) And One Or More Be Tween It And The Spinal Accessory.§ From The Lower And External Part Of This Ganglion A Small Nerve Arises, (rainus Auricularis Nervi Vogi,) Which Is Seen Joined By Another Small Branch From The Lower Part Of The Ganglion Petrosum Of The Glosso-pharyngeal.* The Ramus ...
Glutieal Region
Glutieal Region, (surgical Anatomy.) (fr. Region Fessiere.) The Glutaml Region May Be Defined With Tolerable Precision To Be All That Space External To The Pelvis Which Is Covered By The Gluttei Muscles Of Each Side. Its Boun Daries Geem Naturally To Be The Crista Of The Ilium Above; Behind, The ...
Group Ii Liquid Adventitious
Group Ii. Liquid Adventitious Products. Fluids Formed In Localities, Naturally Free From Them, Are Obviously Adventitious. Patho Logically Considered, Fluid Products Are Of Sig Nal Importance ; But The Consideration Of Their Morbid Anatomy Will Not Long Detain Us. These Fluids Accumulate In Serous Cavities (dropsical); In The Cellular Tnembrane ...
Growths
-growths. § 1. Growths Possess Texture Which Differs In Physical Characters From All Natural Tissues, The Arrangement Of Their Septa And Loculi Being, Among Other Things, Distinctive Of Themselves. They Differ, Further, From Natural Structures, In A Total Deficiency Of Modelling Faculty ; They Enlarge In All Directions Indiffer Ently, ...