For on directing her to lie down much in the day, and to take the bark, the distortion became less, and the palpitation and quick respiration became less at the same time.
Distortion of the spine is another disease originating from the innutrition or softness of the bones.
The methods recommended in distortion of the spine are also to be attended to.
In both cities, the massdistortion of large steel buildings was observed out to 4,500 feet from X.
In Nagasaki, 1500 feet from X high quality steel frame buildings were not completely collapsed, but the entire buildings suffered mass distortion and all panels and roofs were blown in.
He could not see that what had disgusted Raeburn with religion had been the distortion of Christ's teaching, and that in truth the secularist creed embodied much of the truest and loftiest Christianity.
The coarse distortion and the narrow contraction of Christ's teaching which she had just heard, offered no remedy for this evil.
As the distorting magnetic pressure is in phase with that of the magnets, the distortion of the flux will be a fixed effect.
In the simple series motor, there will be a distortion of the flux as in the direct current motor.
As in direct current machines, this distortion is undesirable since it is not conducive to sparkless working, and also reduces to a more or less extent the torque exerted by the motor.
Albeit, the errors of these charts are far more suggestive of deliberate distortion than, of inaccurate charting.
He put his hand to his head and the strange distortion of his mouth deepened, marring his face.
Yet, somehow the tragedies do not fret and strut in such distorted ways in lands where distortion is much more common, as in the East.
Wry face, a distortion of the countenance indicating impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace.
Defn: The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints.
These means of investigation are not in principle different from those we employ in the detection of molecular distortion in inorganic matter under increasing intensities of an external force.
Under the continued action of stimulus of gravity the torsion increases till it reaches a limit; for the twisted organ resists further distortion and a balance is struck when the twisting and untwisting forces are equal and opposite.
They have their existence only in that grotesque mixture of truth and error, in which the distortion of the one concealing the malignity of the other gives birth to all revolting and ludicrous monstrosities.
It was a folly almost beyond belief, a terrifying distortion of human creativeness that could lead only to ultimate disaster and defeat.
It was like a dream that had suddenly turned real, a looking glass reversal with a strange quality of distortion about it.
The features were relaxed and vacuous, but there was no flowing, no unnatural distortion at all.
There are reigns, such as that of Sennacherib, where such procedure results in comparatively little distortion of the history.
No actual errors can be pointed out in it, a seeming distortion of the chronology being due simply to the desire of the scribe to indicate the unity of two campaigns, carried out in different years, but against the same country.
But in no reign is the distortion of the earlier statements more serious, indeed one can hardly recognize the earlier documents in their later and "corrected" form.
They miss the aid of some feature, such as a dash, a blot, or the distortion of a letter, which would recall to them the character of the writer.
One reason why the extent of this great region has been so singularly underestimated, is the deceptively small space into which it appears to be compressed by the distortion of the prism.
This distortion of the story is true to the traditions of legend-making.
Thus we have arrived at the stage where, by a distortion of a series of phases, the new incident emerges that by means of a human sacrifice the Nile flood can be produced.
This is doubtless a distortion of the facts of the case of Catherine or Charles Hoffman, born in 1824, and who was considered a female until the age of forty.
Throughout the ages in which superstitiousdistortion of facts and unquestioning credulity was unchecked, all sorts of incredible accounts of prolificity are found.
There was no remembrance of cadaveric distortion of the features or any odor.
He was one of the most remarkable gymnasts of his day, and notwithstanding the distortion of his lower limbs had marvelous power and agility in them.
The silly, dancing, posturing, wiry movements, and the facial distortion observed in Huntington's chorea would hardly be mistaken by a careful observer for athetosis.
According to her it was not every woman who could with impunity be at table in the presence of a lover; the first distortion of the face, she said, would be enough to spoil all.
This, of course, is accompanied by a considerable distortion of the bones of the skull, which is very evident in the skeleton of the adult.
At last I managed to banish these disagreeable feelings; but one night a frightful distortion of the selfsame story appeared before my mind.
No better illustrations could be desired of the effects of mental prepossession and the resultingdistortion of evidence and of logical insight than those afforded by the career of Spiritualism and that of Christian Science.
And let your smile be no formal distortionof your lips, but a bright ray from the sunshine in your heart.
There is, however, the objection that the slant of the object-glass is productive of some distortion in the appearance of the object observed; but this slant is of necessity slight when the length of the telescope is very great.
It has not been possible to show the tracks of totality of these two early visitations on account of the distortion of the polar regions consequent on the fiction of Mercator's Projection.
His recollection of what he has seen may vary according to the degree of his development through all the stages from perfect clearness to utter distortion or blank oblivion.
A question naturally arises in the mind here as to what intelligence it is that is exerted in the selection of an appropriate shape or its distortion when selected.
