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... delicate appliances of science . Thus , some part of the body of a living man is plainly always in motion . Even in sleep , when the limbs , head , and eyelids may be still , the incessant rise and fall of the chest continue to remind ...
... delicate appliances of science . Thus , some part of the body of a living man is plainly always in motion . Even in sleep , when the limbs , head , and eyelids may be still , the incessant rise and fall of the chest continue to remind ...
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... delicate spring balance , like that used for weighing letters , the scale - pan would descend at every meal , and ascend in the intervals , oscillating to equal distances on each side of the average position , which would never be ...
... delicate spring balance , like that used for weighing letters , the scale - pan would descend at every meal , and ascend in the intervals , oscillating to equal distances on each side of the average position , which would never be ...
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... delicate synovial membrane , which secretes a lubri- cating fluid - the synovia . 15. Though the bones of the skeleton are all strongly enough connected together by ligaments and cartilages , the joints play so freely , and the centre ...
... delicate synovial membrane , which secretes a lubri- cating fluid - the synovia . 15. Though the bones of the skeleton are all strongly enough connected together by ligaments and cartilages , the joints play so freely , and the centre ...
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... delicate blotting - paper , the one face of which is free , or lines a cavity in communication with the ex- terior of the body , while the other is in contact with the blood which has to be purified . The excreted matters are , as it ...
... delicate blotting - paper , the one face of which is free , or lines a cavity in communication with the ex- terior of the body , while the other is in contact with the blood which has to be purified . The excreted matters are , as it ...
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... delicate walls , composed of a structureless membrane ( Fig . 3 A , a ) , in which at inter- vals small oval bodies ( Fig . 3 A , 6 ) , termed nuclei ( see Lesson XII . § 2 ) , are imbedded . These tubes are the capillaries . They vary ...
... delicate walls , composed of a structureless membrane ( Fig . 3 A , a ) , in which at inter- vals small oval bodies ( Fig . 3 A , 6 ) , termed nuclei ( see Lesson XII . § 2 ) , are imbedded . These tubes are the capillaries . They vary ...
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