Its fall is said to be caused by the punctures made by insects.
It drops from punctures made in a species of ash by an insect resembling the locust.
The punctures round the forehead had been bleeding, and were open, so that the mask of blood was thicker, and very terrible to look at.
She has now been many years subsisting almost without nourishment, having on her hands, feet, and side the marks of our Saviour's wounds, and on her head a series of punctures representing the Crown of Thorns.
The trunks of Dragoniers (Drocoena) on which should have been practised these punctures for a time more or less remote.
Examples of punctures more or less entirely grown over on the trees whose wood is very different from that of indigenous trees, such as the very soft woods of Baobab, the Papayers, and on the very hard woods as iron wood, ebon, etc.
She is a philosopher; she makes punctures sideways, so the eggs can be laid in a row, and the bark close over them.
It lays as completely in the wood as the locust, which punctures almost to the heart of a twig.
Relationships in distance between the base of fangs and between fang punctures in an actual bite indicate that examination of the wound does not provide a good basis for judging accurately the size of the snake that inflicted the bite.
The bite pattern of the cottonmouth as well as the other crotalids showed the typical fang punctures plus punctures of teeth on both the pterygoid and mandible.
An "X" cut or connection of the fang punctures is likely to facilitate the spread of the venom.
Contrast in Measurements Between the Base of the Fangs and Between Fang Punctures of Nine Cottonmouths (in millimeters).
There was; and when the number of punctures had been made manifest, it was felt to be a special blessing that the cottage provided "teas for cyclists.
He hastily began to use the pin--eleven punctures in the back tyre, seven in the front.
Still, in the excitement of the chase we scarcely felt the pricks and punctures our bodies were receiving, or saw the tatters to which our clothes were being reduced.
Although provided with formidable mandibles, they are destitute of venom, so that I only felt the punctures they made, without any inflammation following.
The line between the two upper punctures of the panel was finished.
Only a few more movements and all the punctures in the panel would be united.
Bid her stretch forth her arm, and ye will see The punctures by which hell has mark'd its own.
Multiple punctures in an oblique direction are then made into the cornea over the area desired.
Punctures and incisions in the bladder should be immediately closed with sutures of fine silk.
Accidental injuries, such as punctures and cuts, require immediate suture, and I have never known any harm follow.
Even though deprived of its fangs, the snake would still be dangerous on account of its other teeth, the punctures of which would provide another channel for the penetration of the venom.
On the right shoulder, a little on the inner side of the deltoid prominence, two or three punctures were distinguishable, marked by a small spot of coagulated blood.
Above the wrist two deep punctures were clearly visible, evidently corresponding to the fangs of the reptile.
These reagents should be made to penetrate as deeply as possible into the tissues, and a few cubic centimetres of them should even be injected with a Pravaz syringe into the punctures caused by the bite and all round them.
The sole indication of the bite consists of 8 or 10 punctures from the palatine or pterygoid teeth, and one little round wound, on each side, produced by the poison-fangs.
They introduced the juice of this herb into puncturespreviously made in the skin, so as to form permanent delineations of various animals, and other objects, on different parts of the body.
Three punctures in less than thirty miles was a record to which we were quite unaccustomed.
Our tires suffered also and one by one the punctures repaired in Salt Lake City began to let go.
The natural colour of these youths was not quite so dark as that of the common people in the Society Isles; but the men appeared to be infinitely blacker, on account of the punctures which covered their whole body, from head to foot.
These punctures were disposed with the utmost regularity; so that the marks on each leg, arm, and cheek, and on the corresponding muscles, were exactly similar.
Of the whole twelve he says: "Although they had no eruption, I consider them as having in all probability gone through the disease, as the punctures of almost all of them were inflamed and turgid many days.
And this view, that fungi already well known to mycologists were called forth by the punctures of insects, was regarded as not out of harmony with the idea that the fungus itself was an abnormal outgrowth of the tissues of the host.
The parietes are not very thick, with the inner surface smooth, but with punctures placed in rows for the entrance of the tubuli: the laminae of shell alternate with layers of yellow finely punctured membrane.
In such Cases, Punctures made in the Feet, or lower Part of the Legs, which furnished a Drain for the Water, had a good Effect.
The punctures greatly decrease the starch-producing area of the leaf with the result that the vigor of the plant is lowered, and the quality of the fruit decreased.
On susceptible species, thepunctures of the insects rapidly produce swellings which vary in size and number in accordance with resistance of the species.
The absorption may take place from punctures made by scissors, the point of a knife, or spiculæ of bone, or from old scratches, or chops by the side of the nail or on the hand.
Even from small punctures blood is effused under the sheath and into the neighbouring cellular tissue, rapidly, and in such quantity as to prevent adhesion.
There is little or no danger from an open and bleeding wound, as by the flow of blood the part is completely cleaned; it is generally from slight punctures that untoward symptoms need be apprehended.
Even trifling punctures into such have been sometimes followed by inflammation of the inner secreting surface and violent constitutional disturbance.
The little punctures made by this animal I have known in several instances to degenerate into unhealthy sores, furnishing a thin, sanious discharge, attended with more or less itching, and exceedingly difficult to heal.
A free and deep incision holds out the only chance of relief; punctures or trifling scratches are worse than useless; neither is there any need of passing bougies or catheters, or of puncturing the bladder.
She then proceeded to connect most of the other punctures with those opposite to them, so that the leaf took the form of a tunnel converging to a point.
When lining the nest the bird made a number of punctures in the leaf, through which she poked the lining with her beak, the object of this being to keep the lining in situ.
In leaves of different texture the punctures take other shapes.
It was Mr. Pinto who first called my attention to these punctures in the body of the leaf.
However, before the lining was completed, the bird proceeded to strengthen them by connecting the punctures on opposite edges of the leaf with threads of cotton.
The first thing she did was to make with her sharp little beak a number of punctures along each edge of the leaf.
In this particular case the punctures took the form of longitudinal slits, owing to the fact that the veins of the Dracæna leaf run longitudinally.
The most frequent punctures are those caused by stepping upon needles, pins and tacks.
Among the fatal cases are the open joints with complications as severed tendons, those occasioned by calk wounds in horses that are stabled, and nail punctures of the feet.
Punctures of the region of the heel, which directly affect or involve the deep tendon sheath, cause a type of lameness wherein pain is augmented, when dorsal flexion of the extremity occurs as well as when weight is borne.
It is best, in such cases, to make but two deep penetrations with the cautery but additional superficial punctures may be made if kept about three-fourths of an inch distant and not nearer than this to one another.
Acute bursitis and thecitis is of frequent occurrence in horses because of direct injury from contusion, punctures and other forms of traumatism.
Nail punctures resulting in infection frequently cause an infectious lymphangitis and a marked and painful swelling of the legs supervenes.
Admitting the frequency of non-infectious lymphangitis, the practitioner must not confuse this type with similar lymphatic inflammation occasioned by nail punctures of the foot.
Nail punctures cause typical supporting-leg-lameness and in some cases certain peculiarities of locomotory impediment are worthy of notice.
Recovery, however, does not require so much time ordinarily, yet punctures of the sheath occasioned by nails or other small implements make for long drawn out cases of infective synovitis.
In city practice, in some stables, these cases are of frequent occurrence; and, generally speaking, nail punctures are observed more frequently in urban horses than in animals that are kept in the country.
Experience has shown that several (five or six or more) punctures are not productive of good results.
The polypidoms of the Bryozoa form interesting microscopic objects, the cells being furnished with variously arranged spines and punctures or dots.
But the most interesting parts of the flea are those of the mouth, with which it punctures the skin and sucks the blood.
It is not improbable that this excrescence may originate in the natural growth of a shoot being checked by the punctures of aphides, or of those grubs which we have described.
This pretty fly feeds upon the fresh juices of the black poplar, preferring that of the leaves and leaf-stalks, which it punctures for this purpose with its beak.
Illustration: Shoot of the Lime-tree contorted by the punctures of the Aphis tiliae.
In a short time the aperture becomes closed, in consequence of the insect making repeated punctures round its edge, from which sap is exuded and forms an additional portion of the walls of the cell.
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