Synovia
Synovia Is That Fluid Which Exists Within The Membrane Lining Joints, To Assist Motion By Lubrication ; As Also In The Bursa;. The Membranes Generally, Which Line The Various Cavities Of The Body, Are Lubricated By Fluid. This Varies In Character According To Circum Stances; And Among These Perhaps None ...
System
System. Brain.— In The Male Ornithorhynchus Meckel Found That The Brain Weighed Two Drachms, German Weight (about Four Drachms Avoirdupoise), And Bore A Proportion To The Weight Of The Body As 1 To 130. It Was In Closed By A Pretty Strong Dura Matey, Of Which The Fold Corresponding With ...
Systemic Death
Systemic Death. Systemic Life Is Constituted By Those Actions Which Maintain The Mutual Dependence Of The Several Parts Of The Organic Whole. Such Are The Functions Which Provide New Matter For The Blood, (digestive Secretion And Absorp Tion)—that Which Effects A Chemical Change In The Blood, (respiration)—that Which Distri Butes ...
T Cilia
Cilia,t (in Anatomy, Fr. Ci/s; Germ. Wimperhaare.) This Term Is Used To Desig Nate A Peculiar Sort Of Moving Organs, Re Sembling Small Hairs, Which Are Visible With The Microscope In Many Animals. These Organs Are Found On Parts Of The Body Which Are Habitually In Contact With Water Or ...
Teal
Teal. The Anatomical Structure Of The Lymphatics Seems To Be Essentially Similar To That Of The Lacteals ; They Are Composed Of A Firm Elastic Membranous Substance, Capable Of Consider Able Distention Without Being Ruptured, And Furnished With Numerous Valves; Like The Lac Teals They Form Very Frequent Anastomoses. We ...
Tegumentary
Tegumentary System.--the Skin Of The Cephalopods Is Thin And Lubricous, And Can Be More Easily Detached From The Subjacent Muscles Than In The Inferior Molluscous Classes. In The Poulp, Eledone, Argonaut, Cuttle-fish, And Sepiola, Its Texture Is Soft And Tender, And The Whole Mantle Is Semitransparent In Some Species, As ...
Tegumentary Organs
Tegumentary Organs. In En Deavouring To Deal With So Large A Subject As The Tegumentary Organs Of Animals, Within The Limits Of An Article Like The Present, It Ap Peared Advisable Not To Attempt To Enter Into Minutim Of Detail (which Indeed Fall More Properly Within The Province Of Those ...
Teie Food
Teie Food. - The Function Of Digestion Has For Its Chief Object The Replacement Of That Loss Of Substance Which The Body Is Con Stantly Undergoing. Even The Hardest Materials Of The Globe We Inhabit Experience A Gradual Disintegration ; As The Result Of The Various Physical Processes To Which ...