Now, wherever optical continuity is ruptured we have reflection of the incident light.
Chemical union is ruptured by a sufficiently high heat; the vapour of the metal is set free, and it yields its characteristic bands.
The frail bonds which unite these lower societies to their soil are easily ruptured and the people themselves dislodged, while their land is appropriated by the intruder.
There could be no doubt that the perityph abscess had rupturedinto the intestine, and that in consequence of this the diffuse peritonitis had at once been relieved.
And the May night was ruptured with a deluge of gun-shots, and harried with a chaos of curses, and death-groans, and the frenzied squealing of horses.
The physicians arrived and dissipated somewhat the alarm of Corinne; but they absolutely forbade Lord Nelville to speak till the ruptured blood-vessel was perfectly closed.
His agitation and his trouble became so violent, that they affected a ruptured blood-vessel which he thought had completely healed up, but which now re-opened and began to bleed afresh.
While the hymen is usually ruptured during the first intercourse, it, in some cases, being elastic and stretchable, persists untorn after sexual intercourse.
The remains of the hymen after it is ruptured shrink and form little elevations which can be easily felt; they are known as caruncles.
Semi-diagrammatic drawing of a ruptured recto-vaginal septum, indicating the method of passing the sutures for its repair.
There may be an apparent deepening of the anterior chamber owing to the fluid vitreous making its way forward through the ruptured hyaloid into that cavity.
As we have already seen, the liver may be ruptured without the abdomen showing the marks of external violence.
The sterno-mastoid was ruptured in the case of Wirtz (Case 96) and Guiteau (Case 95).
This hemorrhage is most often due to the rupture of a number of small vessels under the fracture, though if one larger vessel is ruptured it is most often the middle cerebral.
We have already referred to the fact which Portal long ago remarked, namely, that the spleen has been ruptured without ecchymosis or abrasion of the skin.
Like the bladder, the stomach and, to a less extent, the intestines are more liable to be ruptured when distended.
It is important to remember, from a medico-legal point of view, that an enlarged and softened spleen may be ruptured from a comparatively slight muscular exertion.
When a cranial bone is fractured blood is poured out from theruptured vessels, as is always the case with any bone.
Liver rupturedto the extent of four inches, with adherent blood-clot.
In this case the liver was ruptured nearly through its thickness, and a basinful of blood had been effused, causing death.
These are occasionallyruptured from violence, but more often from accident.
The cord was ruptured in each; in the woman in two places—once at the third cervical, the other at the dorso-lumbar junction.
Its amount varies indefinitely with the number and size of the ruptured vessels, the activity of circulation, the length of time a person lives, etc.
Tardieu, Albi, and others believed that the punctiform subpleural ecchymoses indicated suffocation, and were due to small hemorrhages from engorged vessels which ruptured in the efforts at expiration.
The vessels may be perfectly healthy and the victim quite young if the hemorrhage is due to an injury, also the ruptured vessels may be plainly torn.
As the result of severe traumatism the vessels of the interior of the cerebrum may be rupturedor hemorrhage may occur into the ventricles of the brain.
Fraser found in four cases of actual explosion injury, a ruptured drumhead and hemorrhage into the fundus of the internal meatus in three cases.
An English officer was flung by shell explosion so that his face struck the ruptured and distended abdomen of a dead German.
The functional effects are thought to be brought about through the anemia of the areas supplied by the ruptured vessels.
If it have ruptured the canal, the hernial sac appears devoid of this covering.
But if the intestine enter the ring of the fibrous tube, 2, 2, by having ruptured the peritonaeum at the point 1, then the naked intestine will lie in immediate contact with these vessels.
Footnote] If the peritonaeum at the point 1 be ruptured by the intestine, this latter will enter the fibrous spermatic tube, 2, 3, and will pass along this tube devoid of the serous sac.
Occasionally the pus from the ruptured abscess enters the larynx and causes suffocation.
Tom and I rigged some tarpaulins to screen off the ruptured stern and keep out the worst of the cold wind.
Hull must be ruptured forward; we're making water.
In some midges and in caddis-flies the serosa becomes ruptured and absorbed, while the germ band, still clothed with the amnion, grows around the yolk.
Wheeler, the amnion is ruptured and turned back from covering the germ band, enclosing the yolk dorsally and becoming finally absorbed, as the ectoderm of the germ band itself spreads to form the dorsal wall.
E] Another order belonging to this sub-family is the Phalloidei, in which the volva or peridium is ruptured whilst the plant is still immature, and the hymenium when mature becomes deliquescent.
Sometimes the exospore is ruptured and detached loosely from the germinating spore.
When fully mature, the asci are ruptured and the sporidia escape by a pore which occupies the apex of the perithecium.
This permits the ruptured muscles to grow together, providing the animal is properly dieted as stated above.
Give the blister time to strengthen the ruptured tendons.
They were actually poisoned, not by some extraneous material, but by the putrid contents of their own intestines which found a way out through the ruptured appendix.
In this case the leaf is not a part of a hollow globe, but the entire globe, that has ruptured in the transverse direction at the extremity of the petiole.
The leaf is only a ruptured and expanded tube or spathe, which surrounds the shaft--spathose plants.
It is the bodily expression of the position of the tracheal circle in the stem, only ruptured and to the greatest degree attenuated.
If the bud be simply ruptured at its apex or only between two fascicles of tracheæ, there then originates the spathiform leaf.
Every succeeding leaf upon the twig is in the same manner a rupturedvesicle of tracheæ.
They are only crystal laminæ, and may be as irregular as possible in form; for they are ruptured crystals.
Cucurbita ovifera: germinating seed, showing the heel or peg projecting on one side from summit of radicle and holding down lower tip of seed-coats, which have been partially ruptured by the growth of the arched hypocotyl.
The seed-coats are afterwards ruptured and cast off by the swelling of the closely conjoined cotyledons, and not by any movement or their separation from one another.
This is now looked upon as very doubtful, and such cases are probably secondary; that is, secondary to a pre-existing tubal pregnancy which has ruptured without great maternal hemorrhage and let the foetus grow within the peritoneal cavity.
When the abdomen had been opened, uterine pregnancy was discovered with a ruptured tube in each case, and all the women died.
Hence the patient in a ruptured {32} extrauterine pregnancy must have at the very least two physicians within call.
In these twenty-five cases ten foetuses reached full term, but four of the five certain cases ruptured at early periods.
In cases of apoplexy, where we have the blood escaping from the ruptured vessels, compressing the brain, we find death ensuing.
In ecchymosis the blood capillaries being ruptured, the blood permeates the bruised tissues surrounding the ruptured vessels and thus gives the characteristic color of venous blood.
If tubercular cavities are formed, a ruptured aneurism is sometimes seen, or large blood vessel eroded by ulceration.
The capillaries are sometimes ruptured by the rapid injection of fluid, causing spots to appear on the face that would never have been there had the body been injected more slowly.
In the genus Hypholoma the spores are purple brown, the gills attached to the stem, and the veil when ruptured clings to the margin of the cap instead of to the stem, so that a ring is not formed, or only rarely in some specimens.
The plant at the extreme right is mature, and the inner peridium has ruptured at the apex to permit the escape of the spores.
Sometimes it is more strongly adherent to the stem, or portions of it may be, when it is very irregularly ruptured as it is peeled off from the stem, as shown in the plant near the left side in Fig.
As the pileus expands and the stem elongates, the volva is ruptured in different ways according to the species.
The ruptured veil shows in the small plant below (natural size).
Some of them fell from their pedestals while we were near them, and the clean ice-surfaces which they left behind sparkled with minute stars as the small bubbles of air ruptured the film of water by which they were overspread.
On sending the sunbeam through the transparent ice, I often noticed that the appearance of the lustrous spots was accompanied by an audible clink, as if the ice were ruptured inwardly.
