"Aorta" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stages of embryonic growth, a skeleton of cartilage, like that of the lamprey; also, five origins of the aorta and five slits on the neck, like the lamprey and the shark. Later, he has but four aortic origins, and a heart now divided into two chambers, like bony fishes; the optic lobes of his brain also having a very fish-like predominance in ...
— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott
... dilation of the aorta. He carries clay on his chest. He has superb studies for pictures, and a passionate thirst ...
— Note-Book of Anton Chekhov • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
... make? First, we are going to finish up, and carry out into all desirable species, our great idea of an iron slave, the illustrious Man Friday of our modern civilization. Whether we put water, air, or ether into his aorta, as the medium of converting heat into force, we shall at last have a safe subject, available for all sorts of drudgery, that will do the work of a man without eating more than half as much weight of coal as a man eats of bread and meat. Next, carrying into all ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... made an investigation of the blood vessels; and the influence of the same school may be traced in a little work περι καρδιης {peri kardiês}, On the heart, which is the best anatomical treatise of the Hippocratic Collection. This work describes the aorta and the pulmonary artery as well as the three valves at the root of each of the great vessels, and it speaks of experiments to test their validity. It treats of the pericardium and of the pericardial fluid and perhaps of the musculi papillares, and contrasts the thickness of the walls ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... HUMANE MODE OF KILLING ALL LARGE HOGS is to strike them down like a bullock, with the pointed end of a poleaxe, on the forehead, which has the effect of killing the animal at once; all the butcher has then to do, is to open the aorta and great arteries, and laying the animal's neck over a trough, let out the blood as quickly as possible. The carcase is then to be scalded, either on a board or by immersion in a tub of very hot water, ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
|
