The Microscopist: A Compendium of Microscopic Science Including the Use of the Microscope, Mounting and Preserving Microscopic Objects, the Microscope in Chemistry, Biology, Histology, Botany, Geology, Pathology, EtcP. Blakiston, Son & Company, 1883 - 434 pages |
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Page 289 - These are grouped together, being separated by a small amount of vascular connective tissue. As sarcomata, myxomata, etc., occurring in glandular organs, have more or less glandular tissue, it is often difficult to see which predominates, hence the terms adenosarcoma, adeno-myxoma, etc. Adenomata of the skin vary in size to that of an egg, and originate from sweat or sebaceous glands. Rindfleisch considers lupus to be of this nature (see Lupus). Adenomata of mucous membranes form mucous polypi, which...
Page vii - An Index and Glossary have been combined in this edition, so as to be a source of valuable information. Notices of recent additions to the microscope, together with the genera of microscopic plants, have been given in an Appendix.
Page 177 - These organs vary with the habits of life in different species. The limb consists of five divisions : the coxa or hip, the trochanter, the femur or thigh, the tibia or shank, and the tarsus or foot. This last has usually five joints, but sometimes less. The Coleoptera are subdivided into groups, according as the tarsus consists of five, four, or three segments.
Page 167 - B, portion magnified. corals, either membranous or calcareous, made up of minute cabin-like cells, which are either thin crusts on sea-weeds, rocks, etc., or slender moss-like tufts, or groups of thin curving plates, or net-like fronds, and sometimes threadlike lines or open reticulations. The cells of a group have no connection with a common tube, as the Hydroids, but the alimentary system of each little Bryozoon is independent. Many of the Polyzoa have curious appendages to their cells, of two...
Page 92 - ... of sponges. 3. The phosphatic, as bones, excrement, etc. Fossil excrements are called coprolites, and those of birds in large accumulations, guano. 4. The carbonaceous, or those which have afforded coal and resin, as plants. To examine the structure of coal, it is necessary to have very thin sections. From its friability, this is a process of great difficulty. The Micrographic Dictionary recomPI ATE II.
Page 121 - ... stopping and hesitating, yet always pursuing a determinate direction corresponding to the long axis of the thread. They frequently become stationary in the middle of the course and then turn round ; but the greater number pass to the extreme end of the thread and then reverse the direction of their movement.
Page 73 - J ounce of glycerin containing 8 or 10 drops of acetic or hydrochloric acid is gradually added. It is then diluted with J ounce of glycerin, 2 drachms of alcohol, and 6 drachms of water. Nitrate of Silver Injection. — For demonstrating the structure...
Page 160 - Porifera or sponges begin life as solitary Amoeba, and amid aggregations formed by their multiplication, the characteristic spicules of sponge-structure make their appearance. In one group, the skeleton is a siliceous framework of great beauty. In Hyalonema, the silica is in bundles of long threads like spun glass. Sometimes sponge spicules are needle-like, straight or curved, pointed at one or both ends; sometimes with a head like a pin, furnished with hooks, or variously stellate. Dr. Carpenter...
Page 54 - And for a certain space around the lines in which the rays, grazing the edge of the opaque body, would have proceeded, the two systems of undulation will intersect and produce the phenomena of interference. If the opaque body be very small, and the distance from the luminous point...
Page 180 - ... and destitute of pseudopodia. Ex., Gregarina. CLASS II. RHIZOPODA. — Simple or compound ; destitute of a mouth ; capable of putting forth pseudopodia. CLASS III. INFUSORIA. — Generally with a mouth ; no pseudopodia ; with vibratile cilia or contractile filaments. SUB-KINGDOM II. — CCELENTERATA. CLASS I. HYDROZOA. — Walls of the digestive sac not separated from those of the body cavity ; reproductive organs external. Sub-class 1. Hydroida. — Ex., Hydra. Tubularia (pipecoralline). Sertularia...