| Miles M. Rodgers - 1848 - 156 páginas
...power, and together with the bones, form the locomotive system. The nerves are white cords which proceed from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body. The nervous system is that by which we feel, see, hear, smell, taste, think and perform voluntary motion,... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 páginas
...from the blood. Serve, (nervus, L.; neuron, G.) The nerves are white thread-like organs proceeding from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body. l'hey are the organs of sensation, and direct the organs of motion. Hence nervous. The nervous system... | |
| Arthur Milnes Marshall, Charles Herbert Hurst - 1888 - 496 páginas
...and vertebral column respectively ; and (2) a peripheral portion, the nerves themselves, which run from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body. From the mode of its development the central nervous system is tubular ; and it retains this character... | |
| Walter Moore Coleman - 1903 - 400 páginas
...spinal cord, or spinal marrow. Nerve tissue forms also the glistening white cords, called nerves, going from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body (Fig. 46). of the Heart. showing nucleated cells. Flo. 46. — The General Arrangement of the Nervous... | |
| Jesse Feiring Williams - 1919 - 474 páginas
...spinal cord,* or spinal marrow. Nerve tissue forms also the glistening white cords, called nerves, going from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body (Fig. 30). Have you seen a hog's brain or the brain of an ox? However complicated nerve tissue may... | |
| Maurice Alpheus Bigelow, Ann N. Bigelow - 1913 - 456 páginas
...nerve-cells, especially those FIG. 65. The white lines indicate the general distribution of nerves from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body. \ s: V FIG. 66. A nerve cell from the brain. oc, axis cylinder; c, cell; t, terminal fibers. whose... | |
| Frank Overton - 1913 - 396 páginas
...the spinal cord, situated in the backbone ; and 3, long strings of flesh, called nerves, which extend from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body. Organs for Voluntary Work. — There are two organs for doing voluntary work: 1, the brain, which does... | |
| David R. Major - 1913 - 440 páginas
...enclosed within the cranium; (2) the spinal cord in the spinal column; (3) the large nerve trunks leading from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body. By the aid of the microscope the anatomist is enabled to follow the divisions of the nerves into smaller... | |
| John Woodside Ritchie, Joseph Stuart Caldwell - 1919 - 170 páginas
...man fighting in his own way, we should not expect it to win many victories. If an army is to overcome an enemy, it must have a general over it who will...system is the brain and the spinal cord. The brain is inclosed by the cranium or bones of the head. The spinal cord lies in a canal in the spinal column.... | |
| Jesse Feiring Williams - 1919 - 930 páginas
...spinal cord,* or spinal marrow. Nerve tissue forms also the glistening white cords, called nerves, going from the brain and spinal cord to all parts of the body (Fig. 30). Have you seen a hog's brain or the brain of an ox? However complicated nerve tissue may... | |
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