The second form of somnambulism results from the abolition of consciousness and the more or less complete suppression of the coordinative faculties of the mind.
Still another cause for the production of dreams is to be found in the more or less complete suspension of the power of volition which accompanies sleep.
These states of double-consciousness are divided from each other by a more or less complete break in the chain of memory.
In the horizontal section these disks are often converted into more or less complete rings; while in the vertical sections they appear like thick hoops, the sides of which have been pressed together.
The evidence respecting the corresponding Arctic area is less complete, but it is sufficient to justify the conclusion that an essentially similar silicious cap is being formed around the northern pole.
The variations arise on the one hand from the struggle between the green ground-colour and the reddish-brown extending from above, and, on the other hand, from a more or less complete disappearance of the associated longitudinal lines.
Its anterior section, in front of the Wolffian body, undergoes a more or less complete atrophy.
In most instances, however, the investment of the cartilaginous cranium by membrane bones is accompanied by a more or less complete ossification of the cartilage itself.
If it retains the capacity of growth or of stimulating a like growth, there results a more or less complete transformation of the gland into a morbid tissue like that from which the fragments came.
In such instances there is undoubtedly more or less complete closure of the biliary ducts by plugs of mucus or by swelling of the mucous membrane.
The laws of inheritance can alone account for the following cases, in which the female by acquiring at a late period of life certain characters proper to the male, ultimately comes to resemble him in a more or less complete manner.
The ulcers of dysentery in the colon and of syphilis in the rectum are especially liable to be followed by deformities of this kind, while the tuberculous ulcer in the ileum not infrequently results in a more or less complete stenosis.
There are unnatural curves or angles in the bones, with more or less complete separation at the point of junction.
The arrest of circulation becomes more or less complete, and the white corpuscles emigrate from the vessels to form the pus-cells.
Respecting the form and dimensions of the hewn blocks, our information is less complete than is desirable, especially in the case of Palenque.
IX-127] I give in a note a list of authorities which contain descriptions more or less complete of Mexican relics, but no information in addition to what has been presented.
In spite of the wholesale destruction which was ordered, there remain a hundred and seventy manuscripts, more or less complete, of Wyclif's Bible.
In a more or less complete state, the collections of the Mysteries performed at Chester, Coventry, Woodkirk, and York have been preserved, without speaking of fragments of other series.
In spite of the time that has elapsed, and numberless destructions, there still remain forty-five manuscripts of the poem, more or less complete.
The whole history of life until man has been that of the effort of consciousness to raise matter, and of the more or less complete overwhelming of consciousness by the matter which has fallen back on it.
For each must live, and those already living have proved their right to existence by a more or less complete adaptation to their environment.
This may be due to the position of the flowers on a portion of the stem of the plant especially devoted to the formation of flower-buds, to the more or less complete exclusion of leaf-buds, i.
There are, however, numerous instances of such an extension of the placenta and of prolification occurring among Primulaceæ in conjunction with the more or less complete arrest of growth of the carpels.
In some species of Muscari and Bellevalia the uppermost flowers of the raceme show more or less complete suppression of almost all the part of which the flower normally consists.
We could detect no true neurenteric canal, although a more or less complete fusion of the germinal layers at the tail end of the embryo may still be traced.
The cavity of the heart is circumscribed by a more or less complete epithelioid (endothelial) layer of flattened cells, connected with the splanchnic wall of the heart by protoplasmic processes.
We have been able to prepare several more or less complete series of sections of embryos of this stage (Plate 35, figs.
The pseudo-epithelium is separated from the middle layer by a more or less complete stratum of connective tissue, which, however, is traversed by trabeculae connecting the two layers of the epithelium.
On heating with methyl alcohol it is converted into isoamyl alcohol, methyl nitrite being produced at the same time; a similar reaction takes place with ethyl alcohol, but the change is less complete.
Nor is there any reason to think that cures thus obtained are less complete or permanent than if they had been achieved by gradual moral effort.
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