First Book in Physiology: For the Use of Schools and Families. Intended as Introductory to the Larger Work by the Same AuthorSheldon and Company, publishers, 1872 - 191 pages |
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Page 37
... capillaries , from the Latin word capilla , hair . They are really smaller than any hair . When you prick or cut your finger you wound a large number of these capillaries , and they let out their blood . 4. The heart acts like a forcing ...
... capillaries , from the Latin word capilla , hair . They are really smaller than any hair . When you prick or cut your finger you wound a large number of these capillaries , and they let out their blood . 4. The heart acts like a forcing ...
Page 43
... capillaries , and then bring it back to the heart . It is when the blood is in these capillaries that it is used for building How does the stream of blood from a cut vein differ from the stream from a cut artery ? What is the reason of ...
... capillaries , and then bring it back to the heart . It is when the blood is in these capillaries that it is used for building How does the stream of blood from a cut vein differ from the stream from a cut artery ? What is the reason of ...
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... capillaries into the veins it has a dark color . The cause of this change is the use which is made of the blood while it is in the capillaries . Something has been taken from it for building and repairing , and so it cannot be as good ...
... capillaries into the veins it has a dark color . The cause of this change is the use which is made of the blood while it is in the capillaries . Something has been taken from it for building and repairing , and so it cannot be as good ...
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... capillaries , it is changed to dark blood , and goes back by veins to the right side of the heart , a , where we started . The blood is constantly going the rounds of these two circulations , day and night , as long as life lasts . 24 ...
... capillaries , it is changed to dark blood , and goes back by veins to the right side of the heart , a , where we started . The blood is constantly going the rounds of these two circulations , day and night , as long as life lasts . 24 ...
Page 55
... capillaries that branch out upon this skin . It is by the airing that the blood thus takes , that every drop of dark blood that goes to the lungs is changed to red blood . 4. The great object of the machinery of respiration is to keep ...
... capillaries that branch out upon this skin . It is by the airing that the blood thus takes , that every drop of dark blood that goes to the lungs is changed to red blood . 4. The great object of the machinery of respiration is to keep ...
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Page 112 - BO many different bones, instead of being one solid, tight box. If a blow be received on the head, these bones give a little upon each other, as it is expressed, and so they are not often broken. They give more in the child than in the adult, because, besides being less brittle, they are less tightly put together. It is well that it is so ; for if it were not, the skull would often be fractured, in the frequent falls which the child has. 9. The bones on the top of the head are fastened together by...