Kirkes' Handbook of physiology

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William Wood & Company, 1898
 

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Seite 33 - The ventricles of the brain and the central canal of the spinal cord...
Seite 663 - I, fovea hemielliptica ; 2, fovea hemispherica ; 3, common opening of the superior and posterior semicircular canals ; 4, opening of the aqueduct of the vestibule ; 5, the superior, 6, the posterior, and 7, the external semicircular canals ; 8, spiral tube of the cochlea (scala tympani) ; 9, opening of the aqueduct of the cochlea ; 10, placed on the lamina spiralis in the scala vestibuli.
Seite 169 - The opening of the inferior cava is protected and partly covered by a membrane called the Eustachian valve. In the posterior wall of the auricle is a slight depression called the fossa ovalis, which corresponds to an opening between the right and left auricles which exists in foetal life.
Seite 746 - Three-quarters of an inch in diameter ; central clot reddish ; convoluted wall pale. Smaller ; convoluted wall bright yellow ; clot still reddish. Reduced to the condition of an insignificant cicatrix. Absent.
Seite 729 - ... granular substance lying external to the fibrous stroma; 4, blood-vessels; 5, ovigerms in their earliest stages occupying a part of the granular layer near the surface; 6...
Seite 385 - Absorption by the skin has been already mentioned, as an instance in which that process is most actively accomplished. Metallic preparations rubbed into the skin have the same action as when given internally, only in a less degree. Mercury applied in this manner exerts its specific influence upon syphilis, and excites salivation; potassio-tartrate of antimony may excite vomiting, or an eruption extending over the whole body; and arsenic may produce poisonous effects. Vegetable matters, also, if soluble,...
Seite 530 - ... which distinguishes them even when they are singing the same note. The qualities of the barytone and mezzo-soprano voices are less marked ; the barytone being intermediate between the bass and tenor, the mezzo-soprano between the contralto and soprano. They have also a middle, position as to pitch in the scale of the male and female voices. The...
Seite 622 - What we term sleep occurs of ten in very different degrees in different parts of the nervous system ; and in some parts the expression cannot be used in the ordinary sense. The phenomena of dreams and somnambulism are examples of differing degrees of sleep in different parts of the cerebro-spinal nervous system. In the former case the cerebrum is still partially active ; but the...
Seite 632 - Flourens inferred that the cerebellum belongs neither to the sensory nor the intellectual apparatus; and that it is not the source of voluntary movements, although it belongs to the motor apparatus; but is the organ for the coordination of the voluntary movements, or for the excitement of the combined action of muscles.
Seite 224 - ... and flaccid, but at certain times receive an unusually large quantity of blood, become distended and swollen by it, and pass into the state which has been termed erection. Such structures are the corpora cavernosa...

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