"Sinus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [4989] "Nam quid lacteolus sinus, et ipsas Prae te fers sine linteo papillas? Hoc est dicere, posce, posce, trado; Hoc est ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... cerebellum. He attained to some knowledge of the ventricles of the brain, the cranial and spinal nerves, the nerves of the heart, and the coats of the eye. He distinguished the blood sinuses of the skull, and the torcular Herophili (winepress of Herophilus), a sinus described by him, has preserved his name in modern anatomical nomenclature. He even made out more minute structures, such as the little depression in the fourth ventricle of the brain, known to modern anatomists as the calamus scriptorius, which still bears the name which he gave it ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... appendages are always attached to the same spot, to the corners of the jaw; they are cylindrical, about three inches in length, covered with bristles, and with a pencil of bristles rising out of a sinus on one side: they have a cartilaginous centre, with two small longitudinal muscles they occur either symmetrically on both sides of the face or on one side alone. Richardson figures them on the gaunt old "Irish Greyhound pig;" and Nathusius states ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
... rocky island of Aegina—certainly not their nearest neighbours, if the question were to be settled by geographers. The wealthy inhabitants of that illustrious isle, which, rising above that part of the Aegean called Sinus Saronicus, we may yet behold in a clear sky from the heights of Phyle,—had long entertained a hatred against the Athenians. They willingly embraced the proffered alliance of the Boeotians, and the two states ravaged in concert the ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... groove or sinus with sharp edges: specifically applied to grooves on the head or sides of prothorax in which the antennae ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... and forming the only asymmetrical (not-balancing) feature of the veins in front of the heart; it brings blood back from the ribs of the thorax wall, and is of interest mainly because it answers to an enormous main vessel, the right post-cardinal sinus, in fishes. There are spermatic arteries and veins (s.v. and a.) to the genital organs. All these vessels should be patiently dissected out ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells |
