"Cell-like" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bell-shaped body and pendent stem, bears a striking resemblance to an umbrella; noting this resemblance, naturalists have given the name manubrium, "handle," to the stem. Around the edge of the umbrella, and situated at regular intervals, are certain round, cell-like organs, which vary considerably in number. Some species have only eight, while others have sixty, eighty, and even (in OEquorea) as high as six hundred.[8] These so-called "marginal bodies" are the eyes of the jelly-fish. By many biologists these ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir
... small, cell-like chamber, built into the side of the tower. It may have contained a dozen cubic yards of space, and had neither ...
— The Ashiel mystery - A Detective Story • Mrs. Charles Bryce
... form is illustrated in Fig. 42. Each box, as A, B, has therein a plurality of vertical and horizontal partitions, so that a number of cells are provided, the two cell-like boxes being held apart by a bar C, ...
— Aeroplanes • J. S. Zerbe***
... column is developed), and Schwann himself had discovered a corresponding similarity in the branchial cartilage of a tadpole. Then, too, the researches of Friedrich Henle had shown that the particles that make up the epidermis of animals are very cell-like in appearance. Indeed, the cell-like character of certain animal tissues had come to be matter of common note among students of minute anatomy. Schwann felt that this similarity could not be mere coincidence, but he had gained ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... and cell-like in appearance. It is about twenty feet square. The floor is of brick tiles, and the walls are rough and heavy. The apartment is divided into two unequal portions by a partition of glass and iron. The smaller portion is used by the public. The remainder is devoted to the ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe |
