 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 792 pages
...large trunks, from the lateral and posterior part of the brain. The first of these, in its passage outwards, turns round a cartilage of the cranium,...into the organ towards its anterior extremity. The 2d trunk enters the gills between the * In a very large torpedo, the number of columns in one electric... | |
 | William Leithead - 1837 - 444 pages
...large trunks from the lateral and posterior parts of the brain. The first of these, in its passage outwards, turns round a cartilage of the cranium,...it with small branches, passes into the organ near the middle. The third trunk, after leaving the skull, divides into two branches, which pass to the... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - 512 pages
...three large trunks from the latter and posterior parts of the brain. The first of these, in its passage outwards, turns round a cartilage of the cranium,...anterior part of the head, and then passes into the organ at its anterior extremity. The second trunk enters the gills between the first and second openings,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 876 pages
...very large trunks from the lateral and posterior part of the brain. The first of these in its passage outwards, turns round a cartilage of the cranium,...it with small branches passes into the organ near the middle. The third trunk after leaving the skull, divides into two branches, which pass to the electric... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 574 pages
...three large trunks from the latter and posterior parts of the brain. The first of these, in its passage outwards, turns round a cartilage of the cranium,...anterior part of the head, and then passes into the organ at its anterior extremity. The second trunk enters the gills between the first and second openings,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1805 - 910 pages
...very large trunks from the lateral and posterior part of the brain. The first of these, in its passage outwards, turns round a cartilage of the cranium,...anterior part of the head, and then passes into the organ near its anterior extremity. The second trunk enters the gills between the first and second openings,... | |
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The veins of the electric organ pass out close to the nerves, аь:1 run between the gills to the auricle of the heart. " The nerves inserted into each electric organ, arise by three very large trunks from the lateral and posterior part of the brain.... 