Mechanism Of The Preceding
Mechanism Of The Preceding Pei. Vic Distortions.—in Considering The Forces Which Operate In Producing The Two Principal Varieties Of Pelvic Distortion Previously Treated Of, It Is Necessary Carefully To Separate Those Resulting From Mechanical Position, From Those Which Arise From Muscular Action Alone. In Considering The Former, It Will Be ...
Meciianics Of The Human
Meciianics Of The Human Pelvis. When We Consider The Pelvis With Regard To Its Architectural Adaptations, And Compare It With The Principles Of Engineering, We Are Struck With The Beautiful Simplicity Of The Means By Which It Combines Strength With Elasticity, And Lightness With Capacity And Unity Of Design. The ...
Medical Statistics
Statistics, Medical. — The Sta Tistical Method; The Numerical Method. La 117elbode Numbique.— It Is To Be Regretted That The Use Of Numbers In Any Branch Of Scientific Inquiry Should Have Seemed To Need A Special Name ; For The Name Has Given Rise To Prejudices And Misconceptions Which Could ...
Melanic Deposit
Melanic Deposit. . Black Colouring Matter Appears Under Va Rious Conditions "as A Morbid Deposit. The Only Kind Strictly Belonging To The Present Head, Is True Melanic Granule Or Cell-pigment, More Or Less Closely Similar To Natural Pigment. Melanie Pigment Is Essentially Composed Of Extremely Minute Granules, For The Most ...
Melanoma
Melanoma. Melanie Cell-pigment, As Described In A Pre Vious Page (p. 116), May Be Deposited In The Substance Of Various Adventitious Formations, —of Deposits (e. G. Tubercle), Of Growths (e. G. Cancer), And Of Pseudo-tissues (e. G. Os Siform Structure). Growths, More Or Less Deeply Tinged By Its Presence, Have ...
Membrane
Membrane, (in Anatomy,) Gr. ; Lat. Membrana ; Fr. 114embrane ; Germ. Die Haut. This Term Is Commonly Applied To Designate Those Textures Of The Body Which Are Disposed Or Arranged As Laminae, Destined To Cover Organs, To Line The Interior Of Cavities, Or Either Singly Or By Their Application ...
Microscope
Microscope, (ihoevic, Small,andaxovw, To Look At,) An Instrument For Aiding The Eye In The Examination Of Minute Objects. Although A Description Of The Structure And Uses Of This Instrument Cannot Be Considered As Strictly Belonging To A Work Like The Present, Yet The Knowledge Of Them Is So Closely Connected ...
Minute Anatomy
Minute Anatomy.- The Branches Of The Sympathetic Nerve Present To The Naked Eye Certain Characters Which, More Or Less, Dis Tinguish Them From The Proper Cerebro-spinal Nerves. They Have A Dull Greyish-white Ap Pearance, Different From The White Shining Aspect Which Characterises The Nerves Belong Ing To The Other Class. ...
Minute Structure
Minute Structure. - In This Division Of Our Subject, We Have To Consider, In Succession, The Following Structures, 1st, The Fibro-cellutar Matrix ; 2ndly, The Tubes, Their Course, Division, And Termination ; 3rdly, The Malpighlan Bodies, Their Connexion With The Blood-vessels, And With The Tubes ; 4thly, The Epithelium, In ...
Molecular Death
Molecular Death. Molecular Life Is Constituted By Two Func Tions, Nutrition And Contraction, For Which Certain Conditions Are Requisite. The Former Demands A Mechanism Or Tissue Of Pores Or In Finitely Minute Tubes, The Ingress And Egress Of Fluid, And A Certain Quality Of This Fluid ; The Latter, A ...
Mollusca
Mollusca, (lat. Mollis,) Malakia And Ostrocoderma Of Aristotle; Ltiollusques Fr.; Weichthiere, Mollusken, Germ.; Mollusks, Engl.; Invertebrated Animals, Distinguished By Bruguiere From Insects By The Negative Cha Racters Of The Absence Of Bones, Of Stigmata, And Of Jointed Feet ; And First Accurately De Fined By Cuvier As A Primary Division ...
Monochiton1da
Monochiton1da. - Family Salpide, Forbes. Synonyms : Salpce, Auct.; Thalides, Pars, And Ludes Simples, Savigny ; Biphores, Brugiere ; Biphoridce, Macleay; Tuniciers Arcs, Pars, Lamarck; "les Isolees," Pars, Cuvier; Salpacea, Pars, And Salpiens Simples, Blainville; Salpiens, Van Beneden. The Salpians Are Free, Swimming In The Ocean ; Plentiful In The ...
Morbid Alterations Of Tile
Morbid Alterations Of Tile Muscular Substance Of Tile Ueart. 1. Inflammation Of The Muscular Structure Of The Heart, Or Carditis (the Carditis Proper Of Some Pathologists).—the Same Anatomical Characters Which Would Lead Us To Pronounce Any Muscu Lar Tissue In A State Of Acute Inflammation, Would Justify A Similar Conclusion ...
Morbid Anatomy Of Serous
Morbid Anatomy Of Serous And Sy Ni:mal Membranes. - The Following Sketch Of The Diseased Appearances Of These Tissues Is Necessarily Limited To Their More General Features. At Present, It Is Scarcely Possible To Discriminate Between The Very Analogous Pa Thological Conditions Of The Two Classes Of Serous And Synovial ...