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NERVES |
Body tissues |
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EUPLASTIC |
Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal
body are renewed. |
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LANOLIN |
A peculiar fatlike body, made up of cholesterin and
certain fatty acids, found in feathers, hair, wool, and keratin tissues
generally. |
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SPICULE |
Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the
tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in
most Alcyonaria. |
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NERVE |
One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the
accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve
centers and various parts of the animal body. |
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PARASITE |
An animal which lives during the whole or part of its
existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its
food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc. |
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INTUSSUSCEPTION |
The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a
living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed
by the living organis... |
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REGENERATION |
...c.,
which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of
life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the
bo... |
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LYMPH |
...phatic
vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It
is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and i... |
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LACUNA |
...in place of vessels
for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually
of very small size, in a mucous membrane. ... |
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ULCER |
A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the
body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one
of the natural s... |
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METAZOA |
...constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are
metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is
commonly... |
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GELATINE |
...imal
tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a
nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but
formed... |