He found that they increased in size and in a week or ten days grew from six to eighty micro-millimetres in diameter.
There are very nearly 25-1/2 millimetres to the inch, and this specimen consequently runs 'The Mite' very close indeed.
Most airships work up to 30 millimetres as a maximum and 15 millimetres as a minimum flying pressure.
When the corneal flap has been made, the knife should lie beneath the conjunctiva, from which a flap about 3 or 4 millimetres in length should be formed.
A narrow strip about 3 millimetres broad is excised from the whole length of the tarsal plate; in doing this care must be taken not to button-hole the conjunctiva or flap of skin.
An incision should be made, 15 millimetres in length (5 millimetres of which should fall above the tarsal ligament), backwards and inwards directly over the lachrymal sac.
The needle is passed through the sclerotic about 5 millimetres behind the limbus to the outer side.
The knife is next made to cut upwards by a sawing movement so that a flap is formed of corneal tissue about 3 millimetres in breadth (a breadth and a half of a new Graefe’s knife), the upper margin being at the corneo-sclerotic junction.
When this part of the skin has been raised the cartilage is divided, first by a curved incision, 3 millimetres behind that through the skin, and then along the straight incision joining the ends of the curved one.
A second incision is made about 3 millimetres above this, and its extremities are curved downwards to join the first.
It lies nearest to the inner wall in the region of the umbo, being only 2 millimetres distant from the promontory, and is furthest from it in the posterior quadrant.
An incision is made in the intermarginal line and the tarsal cartilage is split behind the lash-bearing area for a depth of about 5 millimetres throughout the whole extent of the lid (Fig.
The vestibule, the natural orifice of the nose, only measures 20 millimetresby 7 to 8 millimetres.
The knife is then introduced 2 millimetres inwards through the incision and made to cut in an upward direction as far as Shrapnell’s membrane (Fig.
A point 10 millimetres (two-fifths of an inch) behind the spine of Henle corresponds to the anterior border of the sigmoid sinus.
When such sleep was obtained the tension always sank at once to 110 millimetres or even lower.
They eat themselves down in perpendicular cylindrical holes thirty to sixty centimetres in depth, and from a few millimetres to a whole metre in diameter.
Their sides were not many millimetres thick; to strengthen them in the joints, corners of aluminium were put on.
The absolute humidity, or partial pressure of aqueous vapour in the air, expressed in millimetres in the height of the mercury in the same way as the pressure of the atmosphere, follows in the main the temperature of the air.
Below Rosario the mean descent is twelve millimetres to the kilometre, below San Pedro only six.
The introduction of new crops gives a geographical meaning, which had hitherto escaped observation, to climatological limits such, for instance, as the line of 400 millimetres of rainfall which is the western frontier of the region of cereals.
The fall, which from Corrientes onward remains between sixty and forty millimetres per kilometre, sinks suddenly to thirteen over a stretch of twenty-five miles, and then rises again to thirty to forty-five millimetres.
The Holostomum macrocephalum is common in the intestines of rapacious birds; it is from five to seven millimetres in length (about .
It is about four or five millimetres in length (about .
When the rhipipterous insect is six millimetres in length, it changes its skin the second time, and this splits on the back, so that the 258 skin remains fixed between the larva of the parasite and that of the wasp.
These cymothoes are about fifteen millimetres in length, and often fill all the cavity of the mouth.
About a thousand varieties are known, varying in length from a few millimetres to forty or 233 fifty centimetres.
These worms are from three to four millimetres in length (about .
The masses differ considerably in size but never exceed a few millimetres in diameter.
The other is a scoriaceous rock containing numerous round steam-pores, ranging up to 5 millimetres in diameter and generally filled with clear quartz-crystals and lined by chalcedony.
Augite crystals, 5 or 6 millimetresin length, are inclosed in the tuffs which contain palagonitised materials, but apparently no organic remains.
The matrix of this deposit, which is a little calcareous, is principally made up of fragments, ranging up to 3 or 4 millimetres in size, of vacuolar palagonite, the minute vesicles being filled with some alteration product.
On this north slope of the range I also found an amygdaloidal variety of the same altered rocks containing irregular amygdules, 5 or 6 millimetres long, of fibrous quartz or chalcedony.
It is composed of loosely compacted subangular fragments, 1 to 3 millimetres in size, in which the macroscopic prisms of the rhombic pyroxene are especially frequent.
The tuff consists of fragments of a brown basic glass, the larger 1 to 2 millimetres in size, carrying porphyritic plagioclase, and fractured in position, the interspaces being filled with palagonite.
At a place about 1½ miles east of Viene, these tuffs as exposed in a coast spur display large flat spiral tests of shallow-water foraminifera 4 or 5 millimetres across.
A quartz-porphyry, somewhat banded and a little altered, and displaying rounded quartz crystals 3 or 4 millimetres in size, is the prevailing massive rock exposed on the hill-slopes and occasionally at the coast.
The small quartz crystals, which are 1 to 2 millimetres in size, are sometimes bipyramidal.
Those which formed the commencement of this earthquake lasted for about 10 seconds, as shown by ordinary seismographs, and the vibrations had attained a range of a few millimetres before they affected the instrument in question.
At five of these it exceeded 4000 millimetres per second per second, an acceleration equal to about five-twelfths of that due to gravity.
Each man was required to peep into a dark box, shaped like a camera, through an eye-hole sixteen millimetres in diameter.
The value of X/p for which F(X/p) is a maximum is seen from the preceding table to be about 420, when X is expressed in volts per centimetre and p in millimetres of mercury.
The type of ultra-violet light which produces this effect is so easily absorbed that it is stopped by a layer a few millimetres thick of air at atmospheric pressure.
Nearly fifteen hundred millimetres distant was another and taller bush in which pier No.
The next pier was in a clump of bushes thirty-five hundred millimetres away, not in a direct course, but angling slightly across the field.
AA] Three thousand millimetres above the ground, for the whole distance from bush to bush over that single coil of rope those two creatures crawled.
The disc has about three millimetres less diameter than the plate.
The French place upon their barometers a similar formula:-- At 785 millimetres Tres-sec.
Diffusion waves differ greatly in length, varying from several millimetres to 2 [mu].
Into this solution we dropped a fragment of fused calcium chloride, and obtained a vermiform growth some 6 millimetres in diameter.
This osmotic pressure is in fact gaseous pressure, and may be measured in millimetresof mercury in just the same way.
In this particular practical application, however, we are only concerned with spark lengths which are measured in millimetres or centimetres, lying, say, between one or two millimetres and five or six centimetres.
The spark balls are brought within a few millimetres of each other.
The balls in the glass vessel are set at a distance of about three millimetres apart.
If the resistance of this divided strip of silver is measured, it will be found not to be infinite, but may have a resistance as low as forty or fifty ohms if the strip is thirty millimetres wide.
I set myself to pumping again, and kept the vacuum at a pressure of from three to five millimetres for the space of three months.
A primary of a diameter something like six millimetres smaller than the inside of the tube may be inserted in the oil.
Its length does not exceed 600 millimetres at the most.
Two parallel incisions, 5 millimetres in length, are made in the skin, and into these is introduced the paste containing the poison.
Smaller than the foregoing, scarcely exceeding 1,000 millimetres in length.
There were two bleeding spots, 6 millimetres apart, in the centre of the fourth intermetacarpal space of the right hand.
The tail is somewhat tapering, and about 350 millimetres long.
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