 | Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1834 - 644 pages
...albumen, the animal basis of bone is almost entirely resolvable into gelatin. Thus may a bone be analysed into its two constituent parts : by the process first...application of the moving power, and are calculated, in circumstances so various, to give effectual support to the fabric, and also to execute a great diversity... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1834 - 660 pages
...: but it may be detected in young bones while they are becoming ossified : and also in bones which have been long exposed to the weather, or long macerated...application of the moving power, and are calculated, in circumstances so various, to give effectual support to the fabric, and also to execute a great diversity... | |
 | 1836 - 562 pages
...are so disposed as to form flattened plates, as in the bones of the skull. When, on the other hand, a system of levers is wanted, as in the limbs which...confer extensive powers of locomotion, the bones are _modelled into lengthened cylinders, generally somewhat 'expanded at the extremities for greater convenience... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 530 pages
...to sustain the weight of (he trunk, and confer extensive powers of locomotion, the bones are modeled into lengthened cylinders, generally somewhat expanded...the extremities, for greater convenience of mutual connection." These cylinders are hollow, and thus the same principle of which we have spoken in mentioning... | |
 | William Gordon - 1847 - 144 pages
...bone, and, still more remarkably, in the bony shell which surrounds the body of the tortoise. c. When a system of levers is wanted, as in the limbs, which have to sustain the weight of the trunk, and confer extensive powers of locomotion, the bones are modelled into lengthened cylinders. 108. Bones... | |
 | Henry Gray - 1858 - 808 pages
...Flat, and Irregular. The long bones are found chiefly in the limbs, where they form a system of levers, which have to sustain the weight of the trunk, and to confer extensive powers of locomotion. A long bone consists of a lengthened cylinder or shaft, and two extremities. The shaft is a hollow... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 584 pages
...fibres are so disposed as to form flattened plates, as in tho bones of the skull. When on the other hand a system of levers is wanted, as in the limbs which...the extremities for greater convenience of mutual connection. The shank or body of this hollow cylinder consists principally of compact with but little... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...plates, as in the bones of the skull. When on the other hand a system of levers is wanted, as in tho limbs which have to sustain the weight of the trunk,...the extremities for greater convenience of mutual connection. Tho shank or body of this hollow cylinder consists principally of compact with but little... | |
 | Henry Gray - Anatomy - 1870 - 888 pages
...Short, Flat, and Irregular. The Long Bones are found in the limbs, where they form a system of levers, which have to sustain the weight of the trunk, and to confer the power of locomotion. A long bone consists of a lengthened cylinder or shaft, and two extremities.... | |
 | Henry Gray - 1870 - 884 pages
...Short, Flat, and Irregular. The Long Bones are found in the limbs, where they form a system of levers, which have to sustain the weight of the trunk, and to confer the power of locomotion. A long bone consists of a lengthened cylinder or shaft, and two extremities.... | |
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Where the principal object is either extensive protection, or the provision of broad surfaces for the attachment of muscles, we find the osseous structure expanded into flat plates; as is exemplified in the bones of the skull, in the shoulder blade, and... 
