What scientist in the light of modern psychical research could still maintain that “brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile”?
There is a good deal of evidence that behind them is a corresponding fluctuation in the amount the thyroid secretes into the blood.
Secondarily, it secretes its messengers to keep the rest of the body, and particularly the other endocrines, in touch with the necessities of the adventures of these ova.
He that writte the former letter, was one of the Spaniardes that Cortez hadde sente to the prouince of Chinanta, a yeare paste, to enquire of the secretes of that place, and to séeke for golde and other commodities.
It is most probable that any thin-walled vegetable structure which secretes may also be capable of absorbing under favorable conditions.
Candaules king of Lidia, shewing the secretes of his wyues beautie to Gyges, one of his guarde: was by counsaile of his wife, slaine by the said Gyges, and depriued of his kingdome.
The mother more desirous to know then she was before, went about by faire meanes, foule wordes and correction, to vnderstand the secretes of the Senate, and the cause why the same were kept so silente.
Papyrius aunswered, that in any wise, he ought not to tell the secretes of the same.
An organ which secretes or separates some peculiar product from the blood or sap of animals or plants.
In most flowers belonging to other orders the stigma secretes a little viscid matter.
An almost equally simple, though very different plan occurs in many plants in which a symmetrical flower secretes a few drops of nectar, and is consequently visited by insects; and these carry the pollen from the anthers to the stigma.
The lachrymal gland which secretes the tears keeps the above parts moist.
This membrane lines the structures that enclose the articulation andsecretes a fluid, the synovia, that lubricates the surfaces.
Any injury to the coronary cushion that secretes the fibres of the horny wall may result in either toe- or quarter-crack.
It secretes the bile, neutralizes many of the poisonous substances and end products of digestion that are taken up by the absorbing vessels of the intestine, and acts as a storehouse for the glycogen.
A glandular organ whichsecretes the eggshells of various worms, crustacea, mollusks, etc.
It bears the creature which secretes it without its adhering to it.
The animalcule that the marine polypus secretes live by millions at the bottom of their cells.
The fact that the tetanus bacillus never penetrates to the interior of the organism enabled us long ago to foretell that it secretes a very powerful toxin capable of dialyzing and diffusing through the economy.
One of these glands secretes an acid liquid (formic acid); the other secretes an alkaline fluid.
Each has a foot, a breathing siphon, a tiny brain and heart, and a fleshy mantle which secretes lime for shell-building.
Each tube secretes a tiny amount of lime which instantly adheres to the shell.
The wall of the spherical part of the gizzard consists of two layers of cells, an outer muscular layer consisting of powerful circular muscles and an inner glandular layer, which secretes the chitinous lining.
In its simplest form it is merely a cylindrical tube of living matter which secretes an outer horny or gelatinous covering.
West has discovered in it the cells of an alga belonging to a genus which habitually secretes a gelatinous investment of its own (see p.
Poetry is analogous to the pearl which the oyster secretes in its malady.
It may be selfish to rejoice over the malady which secretes a pearl, but the possessor of the pearl may at least congratulate himself that at any rate the pearl has been produced; and so of the unhappiness of genius.
But God, who doth reuele in his time apointed the secretes of hartes, and that will haue his iudgementes iustified euen by the verie wicked, hath now geuen open testimonie of her and their beastlie crueltie.
The hunter secretes himself in a neighboring tree, sometimes erecting a bench or scaffolding for comfort, and, provided with gun and ammunition, he awaits the coming of the deer.
The blood-thirsty wolverine secretes himself in the nooks and by-ways to spring upon its tawny victim unawares.
The liver secretes bile, but if the nerves leading to it be destroyed, the secretion of bile will cease; but who will say, that the bile is secreted by the nerves?
Dufour's gland: that gland, in Hymenoptera, that secretes the alkaline portion of the poison carried by the sting.
Chitinogenous: applied to that layer of epidermal cells which secretes the chitin.
Hypoderm -is: the cellular layer which secretes the chitinous cuticula and in this sense = epidermis: specifically applied to the lining membrane of elytral and hemelytra.
Gland: a cellular sac which separates or secretes from the blood specific portions to produce characteristic products - e.
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