Indeed, the term "image" is perhaps unfortunately used in this way, since it must be made to include not only mental pictures in a visual sense, but all forms of reproductive mental activity.
Ordinarily thereproductive functions are normal, and if we exclude the results of the union of two albinos we may say that these individuals are fecund.
Due to a local influence on the reproductive organs of the mother.
The birds were attracted also to the coconut palms, especially when the reproductive parts of the palms were developing.
The reproductive bodies of the great Lepidodendra are sometimes more like seeds than spores, while both the wood and the leaves of the Sigillaria have features which properly belong to the Phanerogam.
M211 Hence the custom of beating the human victims at the Thargelia with fig-branches and squills was probably a charm to increase their reproductive energies.
M199 Mannhardt's interpretation of the custom of beating the human scapegoat on the genitals: it was intended to free his reproductive energies from any restraint laid on them by demoniacal or other malignant agency.
Was the original intention of this rite to transfuse into the god a fresh supply of reproductive energy?
As yet the restorative changes in the reproductive organs have not been completed, but one may definitely say by this time whether or not they will culminate in a satisfactory manner.
Moreover, derangements of organs which do not belong to the reproductive group may be responsible for the habit.
As one result of pregnancy, for example, the supply of blood is increased to all the organs concerned with the reproductive process.
Thus, the nursing infant has a potent influence upon the reproductive function of its mother, enabling it to preserve its food supply; for in the event of conception the milk usually decreases in amount or becomes of an inferior quality.
Many of his observations are, however, just, and his distinction between productive and reproductive imagination is excellent.
He is aware of the reproductive and combinative imagination, but he does not recognize fancy (fantasia), which is the true productive imagination.
They range in size from single microscopic cells to systems of entangled threads many feet in extent, which develop reproductive bodies as large as a man's head.
These, however, in time acquire reproductive organs, and from their impregnated germs the original parent form is reproduced.
A reproductivebud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.
The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.
That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductiveelements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
Such medusæ are the reproductive zooids or gonophores, either male or female, of the hydroid from which they arise, whether they become free or remain attached to the hydroid colony.
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.
All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.
An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
There was the disintegration of the home and the family,--the reproductive system of society--its members sundered and helpless to avert it.
The human body with its millions of cells and cell colonies is developed by the multiplication, with gradual differentiation, of the reproductive cell.
The female and male germinal cells unite and form the primitive reproductive cell--the prototype of marriage.
As the pelvic bone in man and woman is modified by the various changes of form which adapt it to the different necessities of each sex, so in a large measure are the reproductive organs, primarily, the same in men and women.
At about forty-five years of age, and in some very much earlier, the reproductive nature of woman undergoes those changes which render conception and childbearing impossible.
If we thus regulate the appetite, why should we not, as intelligent beings, regulate the exercise of the reproductive sense?
The fact is, that this intensity of reproductive activity must give place to corresponding rest-periods of considerable length, or depletion and death would ensue as the inevitable result.
The changes which come to the reproductive natures of men and women at middle life.
Its inclination and desire is both normal and necessary, yet it should always be remembered that the increased activity of the reproductive system is secured at the cost of diminished force throughout the remainder of the entire body.
With the birds, death, as the result of the reproductive act, disappears.
We have heard of men who have called the reproductive organs into very frequent exercise, but they have always been men who were noted for nothing except their passion.
The loss which they sustain in reproductive material is comparatively small, yet something of what this costs is manifest by the noticeable changes which take place immediately after they enter upon the mating season.
An instance is given of a butterfly which continued to live for over two years in a hot-house, while the ordinary period of life to those which exercise the reproductive power complete and end their career in a few short days.
Just what is moderation in the exercise of the reproductive function in married life it would be very difficult to determine and define.
No man or woman who exercises the reproductive function upon the return of every slight inclination can realize that greatest pleasure and satisfaction which are always possible, but so seldom experienced.
H), which contain the female reproductive organs, from which the sporogonia arise.
Plants that, like this one, have the male and female reproductive organs on distinct plants, are said to be "diœcious.
In their methods of reproduction they resemble Œdogonium, but thereproductive organs are more specialized.
Both as regards the structure of the plant itself, as well as the reproductive organs, especially the very complex antheridium, the Characeæ are very widely separated from any other group of plants, either above or below them.
Somewhat higher than Cladophora and its allies, especially in the differentiation of the reproductive parts, are the various species of Œdogonium and its relatives.
No non-sexual reproductive bodies are known in the rock weeds, beyond small branches that occur in clusters on the margins of the main branches, and probably become detached, forming new plants.
The reproductive bodies arise from the base of these hairs.
D), are found, in which excessively small spores are produced, which have been claimed to be male reproductive cells, but the latest investigations do not support this theory.
Hunger, thirst and the reproductive desires are its messages to the higher parts of the mind.
A "reproductive instinct," apart from the sexual instinct and apart from the maternal instinct, cannot be admitted; it would be an absurdity.
About half a century ago a book entitled Functions and Disorders of theReproductive Organs, by W.
A reproductive instinct might be found in parthenogenetic animals, but would be meaningless, because useless, in organisms propagating by sexual union.
A remarkable part of the reproductive system in many of the true Helicidæ is the so-called dart, Liebespfeil, or telum Veneris.
Hence, organs like the reproductive glands, which are not so directly implicated in self-preservation, are able to avail themselves of more food.
The too early exercise of the reproductive functions leads to increased suffering on the part of the mother, depresses her vitality, and increases her liability to disease.
If the reproductive apparatus does not act on the brain by the instrumentality of the circulating organs of the blood, it must do so by means of the nerves.
The reproductive life begins with puberty, but maturity is not reached before the age of twenty-one.
During pregnancy the mammary glands are in immediate sympathy with the growing reproductive organs of the pelvis; consequently a genuine physiologic enlargement commences in these organs from the beginning of gestation.
The whole of thereproductive life of woman has been divided into cycles of twenty-eight days each; these cycles have been divided into four stages.
Darwin, on the other hand, considers it a most improbable hypothesis that the mere blood of one individual should affect the reproductive organs of another individual in such a manner as to affect the subsequent offspring.
The middle class is in decay, for its reproductive instincts are losing their effective intensity, and it is afraid of having children; its culture, that it grafted on the old aristocratic stem, must decay with it.
A sound stomach is more necessary than a highly developed brain, and good reproductivefaculties are essential; because the first demand of evolution is plenty of material.
Portions of the urinary and reproductive systems situated within the abdominal and pelvic cavities will also require consideration.
The members of these zoological groups, while united by certain common anatomical characters, such as the reproductive system and dentition, differ widely in habit and in the kind and quantity of the food normally taken.
The Didelphia are represented by numerous species, which are united by certain common anatomical characters of the reproductive organs and dentition to form the order of the Marsupialia.
Reproductive Imagination We see or hear or feel or taste or smell something and the sensation passes away.
Thus, imaging--especially conscious reproductive imagination--will become a valuable part of our mental processes in proportion as we direct and control it.
After practising on reproductive imaging, turn to the productive, beginning with the reproductive and adding productive features for the sake of cultivating invention.
Two considerations, in general, will govern the vividness of the image thus evoked--the strength of the original impression, and the reproductive power of one mind as compared with another.
To one of the lycopods, called Selaginella, reference will hereafter be made in connexion with its very instructive reproductive process.
They are of interest, on account of various peculiarities in theirreproductive processes.
They include the best citizens and the best stock, and from them would issue, if the reproductive faculty were unrestrained, the best progeny.
It embodies the reproductive instinct, but restrains and guides it in view of ultimate consequences.
States have mostly been concerned, therefore, with restraining or inhibiting the natural reproductive instinct of their subjects through marriage laws which protect the State, by fixing paternal responsibility.
These reproductive cells contain the germinal material or germ-plasm, and this again, in its specific molecular structure, is the bearer of the hereditary tendencies of the organisms from which the reproductive cells originate.
But the reproductive cells are set apart; they take no share in the differentiation, but remain virtually unchanged, continuing unaltered the protoplasmic tradition of the original fertilised ovum.
In many cases, and the list is being added to, the future reproductive cells are segregated off at an early stage in embryonic development.
In one of his essays Weismann wrote as follows:-- "Sexual reproduction is well known to consist in the fusion of two contrasted reproductive cells, or perhaps even in the fusion of their nuclei alone.
In fairness, however, we must note how little we understand of the modus operandi of influences which certainly pass in the other direction, from the reproductive organs to the body; we must recall Prof.
The reproductive organs generally are very similar, and they have both a dome-shaped and deciduate placenta.
