 | William Smellie - Anamals - 1832 - 348 pages
...organ, the main spring of the circulation; the arteries are long cylindrical canals or pipes, carrying the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body ; the veins are vessels of a similar form and structure bringing the blood back to the heart after... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Anatomy - 1836 - 560 pages
...arteries, there are not perhaps even 300. Jlrteries are elastic canals or vessels receiving and conveying the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body, whereas veins carry back the blood from the différent parts to the heart; arteries are also distinguishable... | |
 | Alexander Reid - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...an artless manner. Art 'leas- ness, n. want of art. .Art.-.' man, na man skilled In arts. Ar'te-ry, n. (Gr. aer, tereo) a vessel which conveys the blood...of the body. Ar-te'ri-al, a. relating to an artery. Ar-ttirit'ic, Ar-thrit'i-cal, a. (Gr. arthron) relating to the Joints or to the gout. Ar'tinjhuke,... | |
 | Henry Wheaton Rivers - Accidents - 1845 - 124 pages
...from the wound, if in any quantity and of a bright red colour, is arterial ; that the arteries carry the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body. If, therefore, you make compression between the wound and the heart, particularly over the main artery... | |
 | William Smellie - Animal behavior - 1851 - 376 pages
...organ, the main-spring of the circulation ; the arteries are long cylindrical canals or pipes, carrying the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body ; the veins are vessels of a similar form and structure, bringing the blood back to the heart, after... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1854 - 190 pages
...warlike stores are kept. Ar'se-nic, a very poisonous mineral. Ar'te-ry, one of the vessels - which convey the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body. Ar'ti-choke, an esculent plant like a thistle. Ar'ti-cle, a single thing ; an item. Ar'ti-fice, a trick.... | |
 | Sir William Turner - Anatomy - 1857 - 216 pages
...PHYSIOLOGY, PART SECOND. CHAPTER VII. THE VEINS. IN the last section, the vessels or tubes that conveyed the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body, viz., the arteries, together with the fine terminations of these vessels, viz., the capillaries, were... | |
 | John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - English language - 1860 - 410 pages
...is accompanied.) PHYSIOLOGY. 18. Of the Circulation. The CIRCULATION consiste in the transmission of the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body through the arteries, and in its return to the heart through the veins. NOTE. — The blood undergoes... | |
 | John Ware - 1863 - 466 pages
...organ, the main-spring of the circulation ; the arteries are long cylindrical canals or pipes, carrying the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body ; the veins are vessels of a similar form and structure, bringing the blood back to the heart, after... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1871 - 460 pages
...muscles. 870. Arteries — Their Coats.— The Arteries are tough and cylindrical tubes which convey the blood from the heart to the different parts of the body. They are made up of three memDescribe the Scmi-lunar Valves nnd their location. B69. What is the sue... | |
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