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Example sentences for "special sense"

  • In the Medusae the epiblast also gives rise to a central nervous system, which however continues to form a constituent part of the layer, and to the organs of special sense[86].

  • Though the prae-oral lobe is often found in Echinoderm larvae it is never the seat of an important (supra-oesophageal) ganglion and organs of special sense, as it invariably is in the trochosphere.

  • It gives rise to the skin, cuticle, nervous system, and organs of special sense.

  • But there are those who claim conscience to be a special sense, and who generally mean much more than merely that it is, at present, an organization of subordinate instincts.

  • Any theory which regards even an organization of special instincts as a special sense may, moreover, be objected to on the same grounds on which the old idea of special faculties of thought, feeling, and will was criticized.

  • Another important fact shewn by embryology is that the central nervous system, and percipient portion of the organs of special sense, are often formed from the same part of the primitive epidermis.

  • In the common sea-anemones there are, for instance, no organs of special sense, and no definite central nervous system.

  • This brother was at the same time a deputy in a special sense.

  • It is the opposite of instability; in a special sense it is the opposite of untrustworthiness.

  • Footnote 15: Effect of Consanguinity upon the Organs of Special Sense, p.

  • The Influence of Consanguinity on the Organs of Special Sense.

  • The production of certain defects in the organs of special sense.

  • Footnote 78: Effect of Consanguinity upon the Organs of Special Sense, p.

  • The Processionaries, with their unsophisticated traffic-laws, are very different from the Mason-bees and others, who have a special sense to guide them.

  • To explain these many mysteries, we are driven therefore to appeal to yet another mystery, that is to say, a special sense denied to mankind.

  • Affections of the organs of special sense.

  • In all vertebrates above these forms the great characteristic is a well-defined brain-region from which arise nerves to organs of special sense, the eyes and nose.

  • His general conclusion is that Insects have no special sense of smell, but that various parts of the surface of the body are furnished with nerve-endings capable of perceiving strong odours.

  • If the former, are they to be referred to the sensibilities, as the result of a special sense or of association, or to the intellect, as the result of the faculty of judgment or as intuitions of reason?

  • Shall we attribute these ideas to a special sense?

  • They can be assigned a time and place of existing in a special sense of the words not to be confounded with the sense in which we use them when we speak of the time and place of material things.

  • It is, of course, understood that both of these words, so used, have a special sense not to be confounded with their usual one.

  • And it should be carefully held in view that the word "idealism" is given a special sense when it is used to indicate a type of doctrine contrasted with the doctrine of the realist.

  • The larva when hatched agrees in most important points with the adult; and is without the characteristic provisional larval organs of ordinary forms; neither organs of special sense nor a tail becoming developed.

  • From this plate are formed the essential parts of the organs of special sense.

  • Formation of the organs of special sense, p.

  • The parts of the organs of special sense, which arise from the epiblast, are developed from the nervous layer.

  • The brain takes precedence of the lobes of special sense, and is the most important organ.

  • Because, as the blood flows slowly to the nerves, they are less capable of that perception of touch which is their special sense.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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