Seventh Pair Of Nerves
Seventh Pair Of Nerves (sie Benter Nerv, Germ. ; Le Septidme N-erf, Fr.). In Laying The Foundations Of The Natural Sci Ences, Few Circumstances Would Seem To Have Occasioned More Serious And Permanent Embar Rassments Than The Immediate Necessity Of In Dicating The Various New Objects Which They Presented By ...
Shoulder Joint
Shoulder Joint (noartial Ana.. Tomy Of). T The Scapular And The Axillary Regions Are Each Limited Externally By The Region Of The Shoulder-joint ; The Latter Also Unites The Two Former Regions To Each Other. The Region Of The Shoulder Joint (le Morgnon De Repaule) Exhibits A Rounded Projection, Due ...
Signs Of Actual Deatii
Signs Of Actual Deatii. The Discrimination Of True From Apparent Death Is Not A Matter Of Mere Physiological Interest. It Is Of Great Importance That The Medical Practitioner Should Be Able To Decide In Doubtful Cases Whether The Resources Of Art May Be Dispensed With, Or The Rites Of Sepul ...
Signs Of Apphoaching Death
Signs Of Apphoaching Death. It Would Be Tedious And Altogether Beyond The Compass Of This Work To Enumerate All The Phenomena Presented By The Dying System, Since They Vary With The Cause Of Death. We Shall Aim Rather At Describing And Accounting For Those Which Are Common To Most Diseases ...
Simple Vascular Tissues
Simple Vascular Tissues. Cellular Tissue.—cellular Pseudo-tissue Is One Of The Most Common Of Adventitious For Mations, Composed Of Associated White Fibrous And Yellow Fibrous (elastic) Fibrils. But Rarely Does It Possess The Character Of The Natural Texture In Perfection ; The Distinction Of Its Component Filaments Is Less Clear, The ...
Sixth Pair Of Nerves
Sixth Pair Of Nerves. Le Sixieme Nell, Fr. ; Sechster Nerv, Germ. According To The Enumeration Of Willis, This Name Is Bestowed Upon A Single Soft Round Cord, Which Is, With The Exception Of The Fourth, The Smallest Of The Cranial Nerves, And Which, Passing Forwards From The Medulla Oblongata ...
Skeleton Of Osseous
Skeleton Of Osseous Fisues.—in Osseous Fishes, We Shall Regard The Skeleton As Being Composed Of The Head, Of The Respiratory Appa Ratus, Of The Trunk, Comprising The Body And Tail, And Of The Limbs, Viz , The Pectoral And Ventral Fins. The Vertical Fins, Viz, Those Of The Back, Anus, ...
Small
Small Intestine.— Thc Next Portion Of The Alimentary Canal Is That Which Is Included Between The Pyloric And Ilio-cmcal Valves, And Is Named, From Its Diameter, The Small Intestine Tant Metamorphosis In Another Class Of Organic Sub Stances. (see P. 362.) (lat. Intestinum Tenue, Fr Intestin Grre, Germ. Duenndarm). The ...
Smell
Smell. — The Sense Through Which We Take Cognizance Of Odours. Of The Nature Of Odorous Emanations No Thing Is Certainly Known. They Are Generally Supposed To Consist Of Material Particles Of Extreme Minuteness, Detached From The Odor Ous Body, And Dissolved Or Suspended In The Air. This Idea Derives ...
Softening
Softening And Induration (ra Mollissement Et Induration,— Endurcisseinent, Fr., Die Erweichung Und Ildrtung, Germ.) Are Terms Used To Express A Pathological Or Phy Siological Diminution And Increase, Of The Con Sistence Of The Body Or Its Parts. Softening And Induration In A Physiological Sense, Refer To Those Changes Which Occur ...
Solipeda
Solipeda. Syn. Solidungula, Pachy Dernzes Solipedes. — An Important Group Of Herbivorous Quadrupeds, Regarded By Cuvier As Constituting A Third Family Of His Order Pachydermata, And Defined As " Animaux Sabots Non Ruminans," Or Non-ruminant, Un Gulate Quadrupeds. They Form, However, A Race Of Animals That Presents Many Remark Able ...
Somnambulism
Somnambulism. Our History Of Sleep Would Be Incomplete Without Some Account Of A State Which Is Closely Allied To It, Though Differing From It In Several Important Particulars. The Pheno Mena Of Somnambulism Are So Varied, That It Is Very Difficult To Frame Any Definition Capable Of Including Them All ...
Spinal Accessory Nerve
Spinal Accessory Nerve (part Of The Sixth Pair Of The Older Anatomists ; Part Of The Eighth Pair Of Willis ; Nervus Aecessorius Ad Par Vagum ; Nervus Aecessorius Willisii ; The Eleventh Pair Of Soemmering ; The Beinerve Of The German Anatomists). This Nerve Is Attached To, Or, As ...
Spinal Nerves
Spinal Nerves (les Nelfs Rachidiens, Fr.; Die Rzieckennzarksnerven, Germ. ; I Nervi Spinali, Ital.) Are Thirty-one Pairs, And Are Dis Tributed To The Neck, And The Upper Extremi Ties, The Trunk And Lower Extremities. They Are Divided Into Cervical, Dorsal, Lumbar And Sacral : The First Division Comprising Eight ; ...