"Prehension" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... — N. taking &c v.; reception &c (taking in) 296; deglutition &c (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation^; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension^; abreption^, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal &c 38; abstraction, ademption^; adrolepsy^. dispossession; deprivation, deprivement^; bereavement; divestment; disherison^; distraint, distress; sequestration, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... of Rhetotike, is called destruccion, or subuersion, because it is in a oracion, a certain re- prehension of any thyng declaimed, or dilated, in the whiche by order of art, the declaimer shall pro- cede to caste doune by force, and strengthe of reason, the ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... intellectual power depends altogether on the brain—whereas the brain is only one condition out of many on which intellectual manifestations depend; the others being, chiefly, the organs of the senses and the motor apparatuses, especially those which are concerned in prehension and in the production ...
— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley
... the process of receiving the food into the mouth, i.e., prehension; mastication and insalivation—minutely dividing and mixing it with the saliva; deglutition—conveying it to the stomach. Plenty of time should be taken at meals to thoroughly masticate the food and mix it with the saliva, which, being one ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... known as parrot-mouth, that interferes with prehension, mastication, and, indirectly, with digestion. The upper incisors project in front of and beyond the lower ones. The teeth of both jaws become unusually long, as they are not worn down by friction. Such horses experience ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture |
