Uterus
Uterus. The Uterus Is That Segnient Of The Genera Tive Track Which Lies Between The Lower Ex Tremities Of The Fallopian Tabes And The Fornix Or Upper End Of The Vagina. In Man It Is Normally Formed By The Complete Coalescence Of The Two Utenne Cornua, Which In Most Of ...
Uterus And Its Appendages
'uterus And Its Appendages. —the Reproductive Organs In Woman Consist Of The Ovaries, Fallopian Tubes Or Oviducts, Uterus, Vagina, And Vulva. These Are Com Monly Subdivided Into The Formative And Copu Lative Organs. To The First Division Belong The Ovaries, Fallopian Tubes, And Uterus ; To The Second The Vulva; ...
V Changes In
V. Changes In Composition.—the Ali Mentary Materials Which Serve As The Food Of The Living Organism, Cannot Be Appropriated By Its Several Tissues, And Rendered Like Themselves In Structure And Properties, Until They Have Un Dergone Certain Changes In Composition, By Which The Proximate Principles Are Produced. It Is By ...
V Cirrigrada
V. Cirrigrada. Esch.) Body Oval Or Circular, Gelatinous, Supported By An Internal, Solid, Subcartilaginous Body, And Provided With Very Extensile Tentacule-like Cirri Pendent From The Whole Of The Lower Sur Face. Gen. Velella. Porpita. Of The Genera Above Enumerated, Eschscholtz Has Described About Two Hundred Species. Messrs. Quoy And Gaimard ...
V Miscellaneous Topics Relating
V. Miscellaneous Topics Relating To Tim Preceding History Of Generation. We Have Deferred Until Now The Consideration Of Some Topics Which Usually Find A Place In The History Of The Generative Function, As We Have Thought It Desirable To Separate Them From The Preceding Narrative On Account Of The Vagueness ...
V Morbid Anatomy
V. Morbid Anatomy. The Interest That Attaches To The Deranged Anatomy Of The Pancreas Is The Interest Of Ob Scurity—the Interest Of Diagnosis ; I May Add, Too, The Interest Of Situation ; In Fact, It Is From The Situation Of The Organ That The Importance And Obscurity Of Its ...
V Oceanic
V. Oceanic Vast Oceanic Area, Extending In Longitude From Madagascar On The One Side, To Easter Island (half Way Be Tween Asia And America) On The Other; And In Latitude From Formosa To New Zealand, Includ Ing The Numerous Islands Of The Indian And Polynesian Archipelagoes, And The Great Island ...
Va Od
- Va" Od Nt • • 7. Creting Membrane Is, For The Sake Of Conveni Ence, Disposed In The Form Of Extensively Rami Fied Tubes, It Is Most Important To Recollect That The Glandular Fluid Is Poured Not Only Into The Ccecal Extremity Or Commencement Of Each Tube, As Is ...
Vagina
Vagina. Syn. Vulvo-uterine Canal. —the Vagina Con Stitutes A Flattened Cylindroid, Extending From The Vulvar Orifice To The Neck Of The Uterus. It Lies Entirely Within The Pelvis, Between The Bladder And Rectum, Running Very Nearly In The Direction Of The Axis Of The Pelvic Outlet, But Having A Slight ...
Vegetable Parasites
- Vegetable Parasites. Vegetable Parasites Form On The Skin, On Mucous Membrane, On New Surfaces, Upon Or Within The Body, And In Certain Of The Fluids. They Indicate The Existence (on The Surface, Or In The Fluid, Affording Them A Habitation) Of The Presence Of Chemical Decomposition, And Also Of ...
Vegetable Vegetable Ovum Reproduction
Reproduction, Vegetable. (vegetable Ovum.) Before The Mi Croscope Was Placed In The Hands Of The Vegetable Physiologist, The Conditions By Which He Was Surrounded In The Investigation Of The Processes By Which The Embryo Is Formed, Differed Widely From Those Which Exist At Present. From The Absence Of Means Of ...
Vein 04
Vein (0.4, Gr.; Vena, Lat.; Veins., Fr.; Blutader, Ger.; Vena, Ital.; Vena, Span.). — In General Anatomy The Term Vein, In The Higher Animals, Includes Four Sets Of Blood-vessels, Differing In So Many Respects From Each Other As To Render It Difficult To Give A General Defini Tion Which Shall ...
Vena Lava
Vena Lava. The Veins Which Unite To Form The Inferior Vena Cava Transmit The Blood Which Is Derived From The Lower Extremities And From The Vis Cera Of The Pelvis And Of The Abdomen. 1. Veins Of The Lower Extremities.— The Veins Of The Lower, Like Those Of The Upper ...
Venous System
Venous System (in Descriptive Hu Man Anatomy).—under This Head It Is In Tended To Give A Connected And Concise Ac Count Of The Descriptive Anatomy Of The Several Elements Of The Venous System, Referring The Reader To Those Articles Which Treat Of The Regional Anatomy Of The Body, In Which ...
Vesicula Prostatica
Vesicula Prostatica. (syn. Si Sins Proslatce; Sinus Pocularis; Utriculus Pro Staticus ; Vesicula Postatica Media Sea Spuria ; Uterus Masealinus ; Compusculum Weberi Anum.) The Tubular Structure Indicated By This Name Is A Part Of The Male Sexual Ap Paratus In Manimalia. It Lies Between The Lower Ends Of The ...
Vesiculie Seminales
Vesiculie Seminales. — These Are A Pair Of Sacculated Organs, Peculiar To The Male, Situated Behind The Bladder, Be Tween It And The Rectum. In Man They Ap Pear, Externally, As Multilocular Cysts About Two Inches In Length And Three Quarters Of An Inch In Their Greatest Breadth. Their Shape ...
Vi Vitality In A
Vi. Vitality In A Dormant On Inactive Condition.—there Are Many Organised Beings At Particular Periods Of Whose Existence All Vital Action Seems To Be Suspended; And This May Result Either From The Absence Of The Sti Muli Necessary To Maintain It, Or From Some Change In The Organism Itself, By ...