Dictionary of Scientific TermsStrahan & Company, 1869 - 325 pages |
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... membrane , the tissue which encloses the fat in animal bodies ; Adipose tu- mour , a large fatty swelling ; Adipose vein , a vein arising from the descend- ing trunk of the cava , which spreads itself on the coat of fat that covers the ...
... membrane , the tissue which encloses the fat in animal bodies ; Adipose tu- mour , a large fatty swelling ; Adipose vein , a vein arising from the descend- ing trunk of the cava , which spreads itself on the coat of fat that covers the ...
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... membranes distinguished by their white colour , as the albugeneous membrane of the eye . Albugeneous fibre , says Palmer , is white , firm , hard , elastic , and insensible , and con- stitutes , by its union in fasciculi , or small ...
... membranes distinguished by their white colour , as the albugeneous membrane of the eye . Albugeneous fibre , says Palmer , is white , firm , hard , elastic , and insensible , and con- stitutes , by its union in fasciculi , or small ...
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... membrane , situate between the am- nion and the chorion , or external and internal membrane , which con- tains the fœtus ; the vesicle or sac which projects at the lower end of the alimentary canal in the embryo ani- mal , organized by ...
... membrane , situate between the am- nion and the chorion , or external and internal membrane , which con- tains the fœtus ; the vesicle or sac which projects at the lower end of the alimentary canal in the embryo ani- mal , organized by ...
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... membrane of the womb , which envelops the fœtus.- In botany , the thin semi - transparent membrane in which the embryo of a plant is enveloped . Amniotic acid , an acid obtained from the liquor amnii of the cow . Amomum ( Gr . harmless ...
... membrane of the womb , which envelops the fœtus.- In botany , the thin semi - transparent membrane in which the embryo of a plant is enveloped . Amniotic acid , an acid obtained from the liquor amnii of the cow . Amomum ( Gr . harmless ...
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... membrane lining the joints . Anchylotic , pertaining to anchylosis . Ancillarin'eæ , in conchology , a sub- family of Volutes , of which the An- cillaria , a genus of spiral univalve testacea , is the type . Ancip'ital ( Lat . anceps ...
... membrane lining the joints . Anchylotic , pertaining to anchylosis . Ancillarin'eæ , in conchology , a sub- family of Volutes , of which the An- cillaria , a genus of spiral univalve testacea , is the type . Ancip'ital ( Lat . anceps ...
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