These qualities sufficiently point out the uses to which this plant might be applied; at present, it is little otherwise employed than in cephalic snuffs.
The eight segments which coalesce to make the head of a centipede, jointly protect the cephalic ganglion, and afford a solid fulcrum for the jaws, &c.
Of the fourteen pairs belonging to the head and thorax, the three pairs in advance of the mouth consolidate into one mass to form the brain, or cephalic ganglion.
The form of the head (skull) varies considerably among the Indian tribes north of Mexico, running from the dolichocephalic eastern Eskimo with a cephalic index of 71.
The brachycephalic tendency of the Caddo, Moqui, Shuswap and Zuni is marked; the Comanche, with an average cephalic index of 84.
The child's head is normal when its volume and cephalic index come within the limits of normality (even if the shape appears abnormal: Simon, Binet, etc.
According to Binet and other writers, the cephalic index and the cranial volume are the two anthropological data on which the criterion of normality of children's heads must be based.
The relative distribution of other ethnical data should be noted, such as the stature and the cephalic index, in the corresponding charts.
Among the normal individuals studied by me, certain ones showed a cephalicindex of 70.
Accordingly, long and short faces are characteristics of race almost as important as the cephalic index.
The practical method of studying the cephalic index is according to geographical distribution.
Furthermore, these anthropological characteristics are accompanied by others of equal ethnical importance, such as the stature, the cephalic index, etc.
In my work upon the population of Latium, the mean cephalic index obtained by me is 78.
A cerebral ganglion rests on the oesophagus and supplies the cephalic cilia and hairs; it is continued some way back as two dorsal nerve trunks.
It carries two pairs of cephalic tentacles and a pair of sessile eyes.
Hickson and others, that in the bivalves Pecten and Spondylus, which also have eyes upon the mantle quite distinct from typical cephalic eyes, there is the same relationship as in Oncidiidae of the optic nerve to the retinal cells.
Cephalic shield continuous with neck; twelve to fourteen stomachal plates; a posterior pallial filament passing through a notch in shell.
Cephalic disk enlarged anteriorly, forming an open tube posteriorly; shell external, thick, with prominent spire; no operculum.
Cephalic shield ending posteriorly in a median point; shell internal, largely membranous; no radula or stomachal plates.
Shell with very low spire, without umbilicus, internal partitions frequently absorbed; a single ctenidium; a cephalic penis present.
He wrote a bombastic announcement for Popinot's "Cephalic Oil.
One of these folds placed in advance, which is called the cephalic hood, is worthy of attention.
James's Fever Powder, and the manufacture of the celebrated Cordial Cephalic Snuff.
They are totally distinct from thecephalic eyes of typical Mollusca, and have a different structure and historical development.
Rudimentary cephalic eyes occur in the Mytilidae and in Avicula at the base of the first filament of the inner gill, each consisting of a pigmented epithelial fossa containing a cuticular lens.
Just behind the ciliated ring is a pair of larval eyes which disappear in the adult; these correspond to the cephalic eyes of Lamellibranchs.
The cephalic enlargement is to the left, the anal chamber (reduced pallial chamber, containing the concealed pair of ctenidia) to the right.
The second portion, the sensory ganglia, is, as we have seen, the counterpart of the cephalic ganglia of invertebrates; it is the place of reception of sensuous impressions and the seat of consciousness.
The general conclusion therefore is, that the cephalic ganglia are of a higher order than the ventral, the latter being simply mechanical, the former instinctive; but thus far there is no trace of intelligence.
But in the region of the head there is a special pair, the cephalic ganglia, receiving fibres from the eyes and other organs of sense.
But if, in making the decapitation, we leave a portion of the body in connexion with the head, we recognize very plainly that the cephalic ganglia are exercising a governing power.
The cephalic ganglions are two in number; they have been described by anatomists under the name of brain.
Even so impartial an observer as Weissenberg--certainly not prejudiced in favor of cephalic invariability--confesses this featural unity.
The cephalic index by which we measure the head-form is merely the breadth of the head in percentage of its length from front to back.
This discouraged our hopes of proving the existence of a Jewish cephalic type as the result of purity of descent.
As we know, the extremes of head form in Europe, measured by the cephalic index, extend from 74 to 89; we thus observe that the Jews take a place rather high in the European series.
Ikof's limited series of Spagnuoli from Constantinople, and that of the Jews from Caucasia and Daghestan, are the only ones whose cephalic index lies outside the limits of 80 to 83.
About Corinth also, where Albanian intermixture is common, thecephalic index rises above 83.
The cephalic index of modern living Greeks ranges with great constancy about 81.
All thecephalic appendages are much reduced, the mandibles have no palps, and the maxillulae are vestigial.
Palaeolithic man is exclusively long-headed, and the dolichocephalic appearance of the crania (they had a mean cephalicindex of 73.
The mesoblast of the cephalic (naupliar) region probably arises in connexion with the lips of the blastopore and consists of loosely-connected cells or mesenchyme.
A remarkable feature found only in the Stomatopoda is the reappearance of segmentation in the anterior part of the cephalic region.
The limbs of the post-cephalic series show little differentiation among themselves in many Entomostraca.
Mademoiselle," Anselme was saying, "do not think me so base and grasping as to profit by your father's share which I have acquired in the Cephalic Oil.
Finot gaily related in after days that without the thousand crowns he earned through Cephalic Oil he should have died of misery and despair.
Carried away by the lust of speech peculiar to those who are made drunk by misfortune, Cesar revealed his inner man; he gave his measure when he ended by offering the security of Cephalic Oil and the firm of Popinot,--his last stake.
If he had set up his own Cephalic Oil instead of running up the price of all the land in Paris by pouncing upon it, he might have lost his hundred thousand francs with Roguin, but he wouldn't have failed.
All depends on making a hundred thousand francs out ofCephalic Oil, and waiting patiently, with the help of a few notes, or a credit at a banker's, until I repair my losses or the lands about the Madeleine reach their full value.
The membrane bones too of Acipenser are very well developed, they include a bone occupying the position of the supra-occipital, and form a complete dorsal cephalic shield.
The joints are usually troubled with cephalic diseases, and then are to be cured by cephalic medicines.
Second, as seen from above, we are struck with the great length of the calvarium as compared with its breadth, the cephalic index or ratio of breadth to length being 73.
The skull is very long and narrow, the cephalic index being 65.
The second Bruenn skull (Bruenn II) may represent a female type of the Bruenn race, the cephalic index being estimated at 72 per cent.
The expression of this primary distinction between races is called the cephalic index, and it is determined as follows: Breadth of skull x 100 / length of skull.
Great interest attaches also to the relative proportions of the different dimensions of the head and especially to the cephalic index obtained by multiplying the maximum breadth by 100 and dividing by the maximum length.
Insects are automata only so far as the action of their ventral cord, and that portion of their cephalic ganglia which deals with contemporaneous impressions, is concerned.
The name of Trichocephalus has been given to nematodes which have the cephalic extremity very thin, and ending in such a fine point that it is difficult to discover the mouth.
HEAD-FORM: The cephalic index forms a gradual series, the median being 83, and therefore shows brachycephaly.
HEAD-FORM: The cephalic index forms a gradual series with a median of 79.
HEAD-FORM: THE cephalicindices of the three groups given on Table A range from dolichocephaly to brachycephaly, and it is interesting to note that the Madangs, with a median of 78.
HEAD-FORM: The cephalic indices show 3 men to be dolichocephalic, the rest of the men and all the women are brachycephalic, the median being 80.
HEAD-FORM: The cephalic index of the men forms a gradual series from 75 to 85.
Over all this vast territory the range of cephalic variation is only five units or one-third that in the restricted but diversified territory of western Europe.
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