Human Physiology: An Elementary Text-book of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene |
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Page 213 - THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM The central nervous system consists of the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves arising from the brain and cord.
Page 262 - The function of the iris is to regulate the amount of light entering the eye; by contracting, it decreases the amount of light entering the eye ; by dilating, it increases it.
Page 149 - The hot fluid, rapidly mixing with the blood in the right side of the heart and in the pulmonary artery...
Page 149 - The blood plasma soaks through the thin walls of the capillaries and passes out among the body cells. After the plasma gets outside the capillaries it is called lymph. The lymph surrounds all the cells in the body and fills all the little spaces between the cells. A fresh supply of lymph is constantly escaping from the blood, and the amount of lymph in the body is several times as great as the amount of blood.
Page 241 - We strongly emphasize the necessity and importance of combining the fight against tuberculosis with the struggle against alcoholism.
Page 99 - Anatomy of the liver. — The liver is the largest gland in the body. It is of a reddish brown color and weighs about three and one half pounds.
Page 144 - I shall even be most grateful to any one who will take up and discuss the subject. These then, are, as it were, the very elements and indications of the passage and circulation of the blood, viz., from the right auricle into the right ventricle ; from the right ventricle by the way of the lungs into the left auricle ; thence into the left ventricle and aorta; whence by the arteries at large through the pores or interstices of the tissues into the veins, and by the veins back again with great rapidity...
Page 222 - Sow an act and reap a habit, Sow a habit and reap a character, Sow a character and reap a destiny.
Page 253 - The bones of the ear. Across the middle ear a chain of three small bones stretches from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. These bones are called from their shape the malleus (hammer), the incus (anvil), and the stapes (stirrup). The malleus is...