It is plain that consolidation may have been effected either through the concretion of substances dissolved in water or through fusion by fire.
The concretion of calcareous matter upon the surface of the earth is perhaps the only example upon which their theory is founded; and yet nothing can be more against it than the general history of this transaction.
This is a question that does not seem to have entered into the heads of our naturalists who attempt to explain petrifaction or mineral concretion from aqueous solutions.
I have them also attended with circumstances of concretion and crystallization, which, besides being extremely rare, are equally curious and interesting.
But such partial separations are found in the middle of those hard and solid masses; therefore, this compound body must have been consolidated by other means than that of concretion from a state of a solution.
From these facts, I may now be allowed to draw the following conclusions: 1st, That concretion had proceeded from the surface of the agate body inwards.
At one side of the concretion a piece had been broken off exposing an incisor tooth which represented the nucleus of the formation.
In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London there is an intestinal concretionweighing 470 grains, which was passed by a woman of seventy who had suffered from constipation for many years.
A Belgian surgeon by the name of Uytterhoeven, by the suprapubic method extracted a concretion weighing two pounds and measuring 6 1/2 inches long and four wide.
Sixteen years before theconcretion was passed she was known to have swallowed a tooth.
Columnar concretion of a slaty rock, like 356, but more quartzose, breaking into rhomboidal fragments.
A thick-slaty angular concretion of a very quartzose grauwacke-slate, (similar to Nos.
Defn: A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica.
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
Defn: A concretion formed within the cavities of the nose.
A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
Defn: A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.
They differ also conspicuously in generally containing several small, or two or three larger, or a single very large concretion of carbonate of lime, as much as 1.
A very small concretionwas removed from between two of the lamellae within an anterior gland.
If birds touch the surface of the water with their wings, they immediately fall down in consequence of the concretion of the salt upon them, and are thus taken.
Ditto, concretion in form of human testicles and of phallic significance.
We have no hostile instance of heat; for the senses are unacquainted with the interior of the earth, and there is no concretion of any known body which is not susceptible of heat.
A pure concretion is one entirely composed of the segregating mineral.
The ideal or typical concretion is spherical; but the form is influenced largely by the structure of the rock.
The "eagle-stone" is also a concretion to which magical properties were ascribed.
The bezoar-stone is probably a concretion formed in the intestine from some of the undigested portions of the goat's food.
It is found floating on the surface of the ocean, and is a concretion of imperfectly digested matter from the intestine of a whale--probably the sperm-whale.
The true and original "bezoar-stone" of the East is a concretion found in the intestine of the Persian wild goat.
It is an unhealthy intestinal concretion like bezoar-stone (see p.
Sometimes it will not be found at all; it has done its work--the tooth is loose, but the concretion is gone, in whole or in part.
When you find a tooth with the characteristic concretion of tartar upon it, the first principle of surgery demands that you clean that tooth thoroughly.
Poetry is the language of sentiment; prose of the intellect; but since the intellect is also sentiment, in its concretion and reality, so all prose has a poetical side.
Or, better, when this is conceived as itself a category or function, which gives knowledge of things in their concretion and individuality?
History means concretion and individuality, law and concept mean abstraction and universality.
Thus intuition becomes a concretion of the material with the intelligence, which makes it its own, so that it no longer needs this immediacy, no longer needs to find the content.
Its origin was in an involuntary concretion of all the colonies--both the northern and the southern--antedating the commencement of the southernconcretion mentioned a moment ago.
The concretion mentioned above probably passes into the beginning of nationalization when the south was aroused by the resistance of the free-labor States to the admission of Missouri as a slave State.
Under the necessity of defending slavery against free labor there came early an involuntary concretion of the southern States.
Molecule by molecule the rock is removed and the mineral of the concretion substituted in its place.
Some fossil, such as a leaf or shell, frequently forms the nucleus around which the concretion grows.
The concretion may in this way preserve intact the lamination lines or other structures of the rock.
It is little more than a concretionof compact basaltic rock, with slight traces of art.
The vital body was next emanated by the spirit as a thought-form and is in the third stage of concretion which is etheric.
As the juices in the soft body of the snail gradually crystallize into the hard and flinty shell which it carries upon its back and which hides it, so everything used in our civilization is a concretion of invisible, intangible mind-stuff.
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