 | William Senhouse Kirkes - Human physiology - 1853 - 596 pages
...or composition occurs : parts only increase in weight, and, usually, in size ; and if they acquire more power, it is only more power of the same kind...formation of new particles in the place of those that are impaired and removed. The modes in which these three manifestations of formative power are accomplished... | |
 | William Senhouse Kirkes - 1857 - 616 pages
...form or composition wears: parts only increase in weight and, usually, in size; and if they acquire more power, it is only more power of the same kind...or self-maintenance, living bodies preserve their i-'indition notwithstanding the changes to which they are liable tl.r.>uirh the influence of external... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 860 pages
...or composition occurs ; parts only increase in weight, and usually in size ; and if they acquire : more power, it is only more power of the same • kind as that which they before enjoyed. Nutrition, on the other hand, is the process by which the various parts are maintained in the same... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...form or composition occurs ; parts only increase in weight, and usually in size ; and if they acquire more power, it is only more power of the same kind as that which they before enjoyed. Nutrition, on the other hand, is the process by which the various parts are maintained in the same... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 820 pages
...form or composition occurs ; parts only increase in weight, and usually in size ; and if they acquire more power, it is only more power of the same kind as that which they before enJoyed. Nutrition, on the other hand, is the process by which the various parts are maintained in the same... | |
 | Herbert M. Shelton - Health & Fitness - 1996 - 160 pages
...the injured or dead cells. By their powers of assimilation and self -maintenance, living organisms, preserve their condition notwithstanding the changes...influence of external forces and their own natural decay. The stability and integrity of structure and function which they thus display is maintained by the... | |
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... materials similar to those of which it already consists. In growth, properly so called, no change of form or composition occurs : parts only increase in weight, and, usually, in size ; and if they acquire more power, it is only more power of the same... 