American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Arts |
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... blood . They are de- nominated according to the liquids which they convey , as Lacteals , or Lymphatics ; the former conveying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intestines ; the latter a lymph , a thin pellucid liquor , from the places ...
... blood . They are de- nominated according to the liquids which they convey , as Lacteals , or Lymphatics ; the former conveying chyle , a milky fluid , from the intestines ; the latter a lymph , a thin pellucid liquor , from the places ...
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... blood ; or between the wife and her husband's relation , by blood . 2. Se- condary affinity , or that which subsists between the husband and his wife's rela tions , by marriage . 3. Collateral affinity , or that which subsists between ...
... blood ; or between the wife and her husband's relation , by blood . 2. Se- condary affinity , or that which subsists between the husband and his wife's rela tions , by marriage . 3. Collateral affinity , or that which subsists between ...
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... blood - vessels . Dr. Grew , in an inquiry into the motion and cause of the air in vegetables , shows , that it enters them various ways , not only by the trunk , leaves , and other parts above ground , but at the root . For the ...
... blood - vessels . Dr. Grew , in an inquiry into the motion and cause of the air in vegetables , shows , that it enters them various ways , not only by the trunk , leaves , and other parts above ground , but at the root . For the ...
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... blood - vessels , which bear but a small proportion to the vesicular part through which they ramify ; whereas , in the lungs of the Mammalia , so great is the proportion of the blood - vessels , and so very small are the vesicles , or ...
... blood - vessels , which bear but a small proportion to the vesicular part through which they ramify ; whereas , in the lungs of the Mammalia , so great is the proportion of the blood - vessels , and so very small are the vesicles , or ...
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... blood . It was by far the most important step that has been made in the knowledge of animal bodies in any age . It not only reflected useful lights upon what had been already found out in anatomy , but also pointed out the means of ...
... blood . It was by far the most important step that has been made in the knowledge of animal bodies in any age . It not only reflected useful lights upon what had been already found out in anatomy , but also pointed out the means of ...
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