In anger there is a kind of tetanic contraction of all the capillaries, causing extreme pallor, and the expulsion of an extra quantity of bile from the liver.
A contraction appears in the front hyaline part, marking the head.
I must premise my attempt to supply an explanation by admitting that I was not aware it was in common use as a contraction for Barnstaple.
Here id est occurs three times, once in full, and twice represented by the common contraction .
LB, silua for insula, evidently rests on a false interpretation of a word or a contraction in the exemplar from which R1 was copied.
But no vestige of feeling did he betray, save a slight contraction of his brows and a nervous play of his fingers about the handle of his scalping-knife.
His dark eyes were large and full of tenderness, which expression, by an almost imperceptible raising of eyelid and contraction of brow, was easily transmuted into a gaze of ferocity or indignation.
On the one hand, as the first illustration shows us, sapidity and nutritiveness are closely bound together; as are also the stimulation caused by the one and the contraction which utilizes the other.
These two kinds ofcontraction are the phenomena and external marks of pain and pleasure respectively.
The pleasurable sensation must be itself the stimulus to the contraction by which the pleasurable sensation is maintained and increased; or must be so bound up with the stimulus that the two increase together.
When used on shore, thiscontraction of the tube causes the marine barometer to be always a little behind an ordinary barometer, the tube of which is not contracted.
A contraction of rules for foretelling weather--in accordance with the following pages--is submitted, for scales of common barometers.
We are to suppose our mass of granite without any structure except that of the veins and cutters, formed by the contraction of the solid mass in cooling.
Not a thing in the world against it, my friends, all you have to do is to find a way to cause the artificial contraction of the ship in question.
This error is much less than that which may be expected from contraction and expansion of the paper upon which the projection is drawn or printed.
The locative termination ~t is a contraction of the Pr.
One of them was a youngish man, pale, bald, and with feminine hands and a hard mouth, with a continual and visiblecontraction of the lower jaw, which was extraordinarily developed.
Speech, gesture, and every other form of human action are, in the long run, resolvable into muscular contraction, and muscular contraction is but a transitory change in the relative positions of the parts of a muscle.
That the shape of certain feet, especially those with low heels and abnormally sloping walls, predisposes to contraction no one will deny.
The flexors were apparently all right, and the bending back seemed to be due to contraction of the ligaments of the joint and the sheath of the perforans.
The lesson, therefore, that this and other forms of contraction should teach us is the carefulness with which the shoeing should be superintended in a large stud, or in any case where the animal is of more than ordinary value.
Not only is it weakest, but being more resilient than the portions below it, it suffers more from the alternate movements of expansion and contraction of the foot than does the horn below.
That the shoeing, in removing the counter-pressure of the frog with the ground, is at the same time tending to bring about contraction of the lower portions of the wall at the heels and quarters.
We have already seen that one of the most prominent factors in the causation of contraction is the removal of the frog from the ground by shoeing, with its consequent diminution in size and deterioration in quality of horn.
But above all, the disease most likely to be confounded with simplecontraction is navicular disease.
This will account for the contraction noted by Lungwitz in the anterior half of the coronary edge of the hoof.
At length meeting with a very long shelvy contraction in the river, we were obliged to quit our boat, and go by land in search of a Laplander to serve as my guide further on, whom we expected to find at a place a mile distant.
A rope-dancer trains his pupils to the continual contraction and dilatation of their muscles, that they may acquire the more pliability.
The contraction of the hide would thus pull the sling from under the basket, and so cause it to fall.
After that, when the letters were frequent, it was frequent for Rosalie to greet the sight of them with just the swiftest, tiniest little contraction of her brows.
These changes occur with an approach to regularity that would indicate a natural function, the contractionand dilatation of some vast creature, breathing fire.
The other set is composed of circular fibers, which go round in the iris from the border to the pupil, and constitute the orbicular muscle, the contraction of which diminishes the size of the pupil.
The contraction of the pupil is readily seen when a person passes from a darkened room into a bright sunlight, or when a light is first brought into a room in the twilight of evening.
By grasping the arm midway between the shoulder and the elbow with the opposite hand, and then bending the arm, the enlargement of the belly of the muscle by the contraction will be at once perceived.
The iris dilates and contracts, and thus enlarges or diminishes the size of the pupil as the light that fails upon the eye is faint or strong; but this dilation and contraction are not instantaneous.
By the contraction of the belly of the muscle, the insertion, which is movable, is drawn toward the origin, which is fixed, and brings with it the bone to which it is attached.
The abdominal muscular contraction is also, in turn, more vigorous and extensive, and thus the motion is returned from below.
This is produced by the contractionof the blood-vessels upon the surface.
By neglecting this rule, an unnatural and permanent contraction of the muscle is liable to be produced, as is illustrated in the numerous instances of strabismus, or cross-eye, which are every where too common.
Another law of the muscular system requires that relaxation and contraction should alternate; or, in other words, that rest should follow exercise.
These intercept any foreign substances that enter the nose, and thus irritate the mucous membrane, and cause a quick and powerful contraction of the diaphragm, by which the offending matter is immediately expelled.
Any person may notice this contraction in his own eye by beholding himself in a glass immediately after passing from a dark to a well-lighted room.
By the alternate contraction and relaxation of the muscular coat, their contents are propelled in a downward direction, somewhat as motion is propagated from one end of a worm to the other.
Nenna has nothing to do with Nina, which is a contraction of Antonia.
The only thing that could be noticed was a slight contraction of his pupils, as if he were concentrating his eyes on the things immediately around him and trying to leave his face quite inscrutable.
This was lost before -an of the infinitive, contraction and compensatory lengthening being the result.
It may also have a reverse influence and inhibit contraction of the bladder, sometimes in association with shyness, but also independently of shyness.
During intercourse, I am told, there is continuous spasmodic contraction of various parts of the vagina and vulva.
The former calls the place by contraction [614]Gnatia: Dein Gnatia Nymphis Iratis extructa dedit risumque, jocumque; Dum flammis sine thura liquescere limine sacro Persuadere cupit.
Its effect, however, is made tangible in the muscular contraction which it is its sole purpose to produce.
A microscopic examination of the muscle shows that it is composed of minute fibres, each of which on contraction swells up into a spindle shape.
Sixthly, I intend in some cases to apply a degree of cold not capable of reducing the steam to water, but of contracting it considerably, so that the engines shall be worked by the alternate expansion and contraction of the steam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contraction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
