A Compend of human physiology

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Blakiston, Son, 1893 - 236 pages

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Page 214 - Human Osteology. Comprising a Description of the Bones, with Colored Delineations of the Attachments of the Muscles. The General and Microscopical Structure of Bone and its Development. With Lithographic Plates and Numerous Illustrations.
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Page 214 - By Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania ;. Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, etc., etc.
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Page 201 - When the blood is emptied into the right auricle, it is directed by the Eustachian valve through the foramen ovale, into the left auricle, thence into the left ventricle, and so into the aorta to all parts of the system.
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