In the antennæ it is usually the club or foliaceous or otherwise formed dilatations which accommodate the cellular ganglion of the antennary nerve.
Still these antennæ are often highly developed and present striking dilatationsdensely beset with olfactory papillæ.
Luedde found further that in syphilitics there were tortuosities, irregularities, minute aneurysmal dilatations and even obliterations of capillaries.
Saccular dilatations of arteries which are the result of cuts or other injuries are treated by tying the vessel above and below, and by dissecting out the aneurysm.
But in those aneurysms which are fusiform dilatationsof the vessel there is but slight chance of such cure, for the blood sweeps evenly through it without staying to deposit clot or laminated fibrine.
The dropsical dilatations of the antrum, the vermiform appendage, the uterus, the biliary and renal canals furnish instances of tumors resulting from the retention of secretion on a large scale.
This sero-purulent oedema is always associated with lymphangitis, the lymphatic vessels possessing varicose dilatations and beaded arrangements similar to those already described in the uterine tissue.
In the same situations the lymphatics, which normally are barely perceptible to the naked eye, are sometimes enlarged to the size of a quill, and are characterized by varicose dilatations occurring singly or presenting a beaded arrangement.
How curious are the leafless but leaf-like dilatations of the stem--these flat oval plates of parenchyma, studded with clusters of woody and most acute spines!
The fluid most generally used in thermometers is mercury, commonly called quicksilver, the dilatations and contractions of which correspond more exactly to the additions, and subtractions, of caloric, than those of any other fluid.
By means of this instrument (called a Pyrometer) we may estimate, in the most exact manner, the various dilatations of any solid body by heat.
Non-stenotic dilatations which are comparable in degree to those produced by stenosis are rare.
The dilatations become enlarged by retention of food, and are liable to undergo inflammation, ulceration, and perforation.
When the obstruction occurs at some point in the course of the duct, the dilatations and sacculi are found only behind the point of occlusion.
The stroma is often richly infiltrated with lymphoid cells, and contains blood-vessels which often present irregular dilatations of their lumen.
The affected vessels slowly increase in size, and become tortuous, with narrowings and dilatations here and there.
These dilatations and flexions, just because they are very small, will be for our mind relatively easy to study.
Suppose in fact that an object is displaced, undergoing deformation, not as a rigid solid, but as a solid subjected to unequal dilatations in exact conformity to the law of temperature above supposed.
The dilatations on the vasa deferentia, which he calls vesiculae seminales, is not so marked; nor can the peculiar spiral twisting of this part of the vas deferens which he figures (No.
Seminal bladders are absent in the female, though possibly represented by the bladder-like dilatations of the Wolffian duct.
There is no -distinct- heart, but the whole of the cardiac aorta is contractile, and at the bases of the aortic arches that run up the bars there are contractile dilatations that assist in the propulsion of the blood.
Between the channels of these dilatations islands are being formed.
In three of these dilatations the current has cut into the left or northern bank of the river and then turns back into its main course again almost at right angles.
From Skipper Point to Ichang the dilatations should be restricted by dikes of stone or piling, and some sharp points of the shores should be cut away to make the curves more gentle.
The section of the river from Nanking to Wuhu is almost in a straight line with three dilatations along its course one just above Nanking the other two just above and below the East and West pillars.
To regulate the other two dilatations the river should be made to curve toward Taiping Fu to follow the deep channel on the right bank.
In each of these dilatations there are usually two or three channels with newly formed islands between them.
The other dilatations should be narrowed in from both sides by jetties.
By the continuance of these alternate contractions and dilatations of the conical pupa, the skin of the caterpillar is at last collected in folds near the tail, like a stocking which we roll upon the ancle before withdrawing it from the foot.
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