The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 10Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... arteries , and returns to the same point in the veins . The uses of this cir- culatory motion are , to submit the ... arteries and veins of the body at large . greater circulation is the passage of the blood from the left side of the ...
... arteries , and returns to the same point in the veins . The uses of this cir- culatory motion are , to submit the ... arteries and veins of the body at large . greater circulation is the passage of the blood from the left side of the ...
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... arteries into the veins , may be proved by the direct testimony of the senses in living animals . The use of the ... arteries in the third portion of time . Thus the ac- tion of the veins takes place at the same point of time with that ...
... arteries into the veins , may be proved by the direct testimony of the senses in living animals . The use of the ... arteries in the third portion of time . Thus the ac- tion of the veins takes place at the same point of time with that ...
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... arteries than in the arterial trunks ; and that the velocity of its current is somewhat less in the veins than in the arteries of the body . These differences have , however , been exaggerated by former physiologists . The mean velocity ...
... arteries than in the arterial trunks ; and that the velocity of its current is somewhat less in the veins than in the arteries of the body . These differences have , however , been exaggerated by former physiologists . The mean velocity ...
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