A System of Human Anatomy, Volume 1Blackwood, 1815 |
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Absorbent Vessels Acid Adipose Substance Anatomists ANATOMY Annular Protuberance apex appearance Arachnoid Membrane arise Arteries Auricle backwards Bloodvessels Brain Proper branches Brown Matter cavity Cellular Substance Central Fissure Central Mass Cerebellum Cerebral Nerves Cervical Coat colour Commissure concave consists convex Convolutions Corpus Callosum Corpus Striatum Cuticle denominated described diameter eighth elastic External Fasciculi fibres Filaments Fornix forwards Fossa Furrow Hair half an inch Heart Hemisphere Hippocampi inch thick inclined Inferior injected lamina Lobule lower surface margin Median Line Middle Lobe Neurilema Oculo-Muscular Nerves Olfactory Nerve Orange-White Matter Orifice Origin outer surface outwards Oval Peduncle perforates the Arachnoid Pia Mater Pineal Gland Plexus portion posterior extremity quarter ridge Right Auricle runs seen separated Septum Serous Membrane shape side smooth Spinal Cord Strata stratum structure SYNONYMS Texture Thalamus Thalamus Opticus tion True Skin trunks upper surface Veins Vermiform Process Vieussenian Valve White Matter White Nervous Matter whole
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Page 125 - It appears, therefore, that the brain proper increases rather more in length and breadth during the six months immediately preceding birth, than during the first seven years after birth ; that these dimensions arrive at their maximum at the age of seven ; and that they suffer no change during the whole of after-life.
Page 80 - Of three specimens from an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half in length...
Page 126 - The weight of the whole brain arrives, most commonly, at its maximum at the age of three years, and remains without diminution the whole of after life.
Page 131 - Place a small piece of bright copper, about half an inch long and a quarter of an inch broad, in a solution of any salt of mercury...
Page 196 - I have not been able to find any light-colored rete mucosum, corresponding to this black one, in the inhabitants of Great Britain, nor in those of other nations resembling them in color. I have tried all the means usually said to be necessary for discovering it, and many others besides, but always without success: I am, therefore, disposed to deny the existence of any such membrane in white persons "f * RF.ES'S " Cycloptedia,
Page 104 - When full-grown, the worm measures over half an inch in length and about a quarter of an. inch in diameter.
Page xvii - Swedish anatomist, almost simultaneously depores are seen in the region of the nose ; and the superior extremities seem divided into the arm and fore-arm. 21. In an embryo of eight weeks a small pore is discoverable by the microscope in the region of each auricle ; a shoulder, arm, fore-arm, and hand, with five small tubercles in the situation of the fingers, can be easily distinguished with the naked eye; and, in the lower extremities, parts can be seen corresponding to the thigh, leg, and foot;...
Page 206 - An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body. Translated from the French original by G.
Page 53 - Two obftacles of the fame height, but of a different fhape, each making an inclined plane of three quarters of an inch long, and a quarter of an inch high, were fubftituted in the place of the former, and it required but two pounds to overcome their refiftance.
Page xx - Despite such problems, you can still get an approximate measurement of his height using the "wingspan" technique. Have the patient hold his arms straight out from the sides of his body. Tell children to hold their arms out "like bird wings.