Familiar Lessons on Physiology: Designed for the Use of Children and Youth in Schools and FamiliesFowlers and Wells, 1854 - Physiology |
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... moves upward and downward , called a valve or trap - door , which shuts down over the wind - pipe when we swallow , just like the cover to a book or box , and fits so nicely that the food passes along down the throat , until it reaches ...
... moves upward and downward , called a valve or trap - door , which shuts down over the wind - pipe when we swallow , just like the cover to a book or box , and fits so nicely that the food passes along down the throat , until it reaches ...
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... moved up and down by muscles belonging to them , grind the food passed between them , which then goes out at the orifice or opening , into the intestines . Some birds have two stomachs . The camel , ox , and other animals of that class ...
... moved up and down by muscles belonging to them , grind the food passed between them , which then goes out at the orifice or opening , into the intestines . Some birds have two stomachs . The camel , ox , and other animals of that class ...
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... move . If the bones were all in one piece , every step we take would jar our whole bodies ; and we should be in danger of breaking and injuring the bone every time we moved . In the top of the skeleton we see the bones of the head ...
... move . If the bones were all in one piece , every step we take would jar our whole bodies ; and we should be in danger of breaking and injuring the bone every time we moved . In the top of the skeleton we see the bones of the head ...
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... move them , how stiff would have been our bodies ; and had our limbs also been firmly joined , we should have fallen every step we moved ; but we have what is called the hinge - joint , to enable us to move the head upward and downward ...
... move them , how stiff would have been our bodies ; and had our limbs also been firmly joined , we should have fallen every step we moved ; but we have what is called the hinge - joint , to enable us to move the head upward and downward ...
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... move easily . The spinal marrow passes through th : spine , and if this be once broken , the limbs below would become numb and motionless , and life would soon end . There is an innumerable number of nerves passing from this spinal cord ...
... move easily . The spinal marrow passes through th : spine , and if this be once broken , the limbs below would become numb and motionless , and life would soon end . There is an innumerable number of nerves passing from this spinal cord ...
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