They are made by the union of two or more bones, held together by ligaments of fibrous tissue, and are lubricated by a thick, viscid fluid, called synovia, which is secreted by a special membrane inclosing the joints.
If protoplasm was more viscid it would not vibrate easily enough; if less, it would run away into the surrounding water.
There are undoubtedly a number of different species of bacteria that are capable of producing these viscid changes,[59] but it is quite probable that they are not of equal importance in infecting milk under natural conditions.
This is generally due to the presence of viscid pus, and is often accompanied by a bloody discharge, such a condition representing an inflamed state of the udder.
Suppose both the little viscid balls have been withdrawn, the bands bearing the pollen will appear "projecting up like horns.
The viscid matter has the peculiar chemical quality, of setting like cement, hard and dry in a few minutes.
The seed vessel to be fertilized is very sticky, "but not so viscid as when touched by a pollinium to pull the whole off an insect's head.
The sepals have long points, and are rendered very viscid by glandular hairs.
Each carpel, when distinct, is a hollow case or ovary, prolonged above into one or more stalks or styles, tipped by a viscid secreting surface called the stigma.
This is an erect plant, from one to two feet high, with a viscid stem that is slightly downy and never much branched.
The fluid, though quite clear, is so viscid that it can be drawn out into threads, and it serves a purpose similar to that of the sticky globules on the spiral thread of a spider's web.
The Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) is an erect plant, with a branching stem from one to two feet high, and the whole is more or less coarse and hairy, with a viscid touch and an unpleasant odour.
It has an oval bulb containing an abundance of viscid sap; long narrow, limp, radical leaves; and a flowering stem from six to twelve inches high.
Its rather broad leaves are often quite viscid to the touch, in which respect it shares in the character from which the genus was named in allusion to Silenus, the companion of Bacchus, who is described as covered with foam.
The whole plant is very viscid and disagreeable to handle.
It is a beautiful plant, with its feathery leaves and strawberry-like flowers; but by the roadside, where its viscid leaves and stems have caught the dust, it is often but a travesty of itself.
The latter is a very stout, coarse, viscid plant, with small, very deep magenta flowers.
Their viscid exudation is particularly ruinous to wool and clothing, but alcohol is a solvent for it, and will generally remove it.
Madia sativa, Molina, is one of our most troublesome species, because its viscid secretion is so very abundant.
In the case of glass it is practically impossible to use a mould in the shaping of a hollow vessel without some such method of forcing the viscid material into its place by pressure from the inside.
Seated at a table, he melts the extremity of the canna in the flame, directed away from him by means of a blow-pipe, and twists the thread of viscid glass around a small rod of iron.
They have an elongated body, without pectoral fins, and a naked skin, covered with a thick layer of viscid slime, as in the case of the eels.
Now, beside the bases of the sponges and sometimes on their surface there live numbers of anemones which secrete a viscid substance, which is extremely virulent, especially in the month of August.
I am not acquainted with the means employed in order to obtain the poison, which is mixed with vegetable substances, and forms with the latter a dark brown viscid paste.
It is represented simply by more or less confluent glands in the form of sacs, secreting a viscid mucus, which has a nauseous odour and is highly toxic, even to animals of large size.
The species may be distinguished from the viscid white species of Hygrophorus by the free, not adnate nor decurrent lamellæ.
Distinguished by the whitish, viscid pileus, and the downy volva and stem.
Pileus viscid when moist, with a pellicle, margin naked.
Pileus= broadly conical or convex, viscid when moist, subtomentose or slightly pubescent when dry, red fading to yellow on the margin.
Pileus= convex, glabrous, viscid when moist, at length wrinkled or lined.
This species is remarkable for the rich yellow color of the tubes, which is retained unchanged in the dried specimens, and for the viscid stem.
The species of this tribe have the pileus neither viscid nor distinctly and permanently tomentose.
It is a large fine fungus, easily known by its white and yellowish hues, its crowded gills, viscid stem and peculiar penetrating almost alkaline odor.
This is a very showy species, easily recognized by its bright-red viscid pileus and its short, thick and uneven or somewhat lacunose stem.
When a fly is captured, the viscid excretion becomes strongly acid and the naturally incurved margins of the leaf curve still further inwards, rendering contact between the insect and the leaf-surface more complete.
Small insects settle on the leaves and are caught in the viscid excretion.
As the night advances the surface of the sea is oily and viscid with the interlaced bodies of millions of mbalolo that feel slimy to the touch as one stirs the water.
For a time the quantity of saliva was increased, and it became more viscid than usual.
The food thus finely pulverized, softened, and so lubricated by the viscid saliva as to prevent friction as it passes over the delicate membranes, is conveyed by the tongue and cheek to the back of the mouth.
Of course the matter is a difficult one to prove, in that the viscid drop is so minute that it is impossible to determine the nature of the substance which it contains.
At the mouth of the archegonia there is a viscid drop which almost certainly contains chemical substances attractive to the spermatozoids.
On the other hand, the crust of a viscid flow may be broken and splintered as it is dragged along by the slowly moving mass beneath.
Looking down into the crater of the volcano, one sees a viscid lava slowly seething.
Steam is so evidently concerned in explosive eruptions that many believe that lava is driven upward by the expansive force of the steam with which it is charged, much as a viscid liquid rises and boils over in a test tube or kettle.
Trachyte has been extruded in a state so viscid that it has formed steep-sided domes like that of Sarcoui (Fig.
Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
Again we are told to avoid such as have a viscid cap, or those that change color quickly; this is too sweeping a condemnation for it would cut out several very good species.
This plant will be recognized by its smoky or grayish color, umbilicate pileus, and viscid stem.
The pileus has a continuous pellicle, viscid when moist, stem dry, veil spider-webby.
Pileus viscid when moist, convex to expanded, in age somewhat depressed; clay color, darker over center, often with appressed clay brown scales with a darker color.
Its smooth, viscid cap and white flesh will distinguish it.
For they found something, at last, in a viscid non-crystalline substance, protoplasm.
Not in the sharp awareness of later times, but at the first only ill-defined, perhaps no more than the awareness of acid chains of molecules that formed into non-crystalline viscid protoplasm on another planet across the universe.
The milky viscid sap drips out into leaf-cups, which are then emptied into a cylindrical vessel of bark.
The stringy viscid substance due to the last cause is frequently, but erroneously, termed mucus.
The viscid mucus thus obtained contains the pure gastric juice with much epithelium from the glands and surface of the mucous membrane.
It is scarcely at all frothy but extremelyviscid and adhesive, and the vessel which contains it may often be overturned without its escaping.
The portion remaining in the retort (balsam of turpentine) is viscid and resinous.
It is the most viscid of all the fixed oils; when pure it mixes in all proportions with alcohol and ether, and also dissolves, to a certain extent, in rectified spirit, but a portion of the oil separates on standing.
Although numerous abscesses have been formed in the lower part of it, and there has been considerable discharge, viscid or purulent, the upper part has remained as hard and almost as scirrhous as before.
She then fell into a state of violent agitation, with constriction of the pharynx, and the discharge of a viscid fluid from the mouth.
This tongue kept playing backwards and forwards, and its viscid covering glittered under the sunbeam, adding to the hideous appearance of the monster.
This was to permit the discharge of a viscid liquid from the footstalk end; and in order to assist this discharge, the pods were several times lightly pressed between the fingers.
The cap of an average specimen expands four inches or more, is of a brown or brownish buff color, and viscid when moist.
Its upper surface was dark meaty red or liver colored, somewhat wet, or viscid and clammy, and its taste slightly acid.
The pileus may be viscid or dry in certain species, but the plant lacks a viscid universal veil.
It is somewhat viscid when moist, and the margin is very thin and strongly striate and tuberculate, i.
The plants are dull reddish-brown, viscid when moist, and shining.
The =pileus= is ovate to convex, viscid when young.
The pileus is usually dry, but Webster cites an instance in which it was viscid in wet weather.
The entire plant is light yellow, and viscid when moist, the gills becoming purplish brown, or nearly black.
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