143 examples of capsules in sentences

Little more than a hundred years ago, it was observed that certain organs, like the thyroid body in the neck, and the adrenal capsules in the abdomen, hitherto neglected because their function was hopelessly obscure, had a glandular structure.

A very delicate connective tissue, called the synovial membrane, lines the capsules of the joints, and covers the ligaments connected with them.

The suprarenal capsules are two little bodies, one perched on the top of each kidney, in shape not unlike that of a conical hat.

These lie parallel in the medullary or central structure, but On reaching the cortical or outer layer, they wind about and interlace, ending, at last, in dilated closed sacs called Malpighian capsules.

The Malpighian capsules are really the beginning of the tubules, for here the work of excretion begins.

From the capsules, the excretion passes through the tubules into the pelvis, and on through the ureters to the bladder.

Thus whatever raises the blood-pressure in the capillaries of the capsules, will increase the quantity of fluid filtering through them.

In the papillæ of the red border of the lips the nerves end in capsules which enclose one or more fibers, and are called end-bulbs.

He took a glass of the water that Viny had brought, held up old Caroline's head, and washed down two big capsules into the already poisoned stomach of the old negress.

He left other capsules for Nan to administer at regular intervals.

No doubt the magazines of the carbines were packed with those neat brass capsules which carry doses of potential death; but the guards, except for the moral effect of the thing, might just as well have been bare-handed.

Flowers appearing in June, and succeeded by rough, warted, brilliant scarlet capsules, which are particularly showy and attractive.

Flowers, purplish-white, appearing in June; the capsules large, deep red, and when open contrasting very effectively with the bright orange arils in which the seeds are enveloped.

This is a straggling shrub, from 6 feet to 8 feet high, with white, racemose flowers, succeeded by bladder-like capsules.

In many books, and, for instance, in Zimmerman's "Pocket-Book of Travels," I read under this head that the poppy plants reached a height of forty feet in India and Persia, and that the capsules were as large as a child's head, and held nearly a quart of seeds.

Revealed in the shadow of his light were many horizontal gold and clear quartz capsules about eight feet long and two feet in diameter, stacked in rows.

Boxes were spaced about twenty feet apart and each was connected to about forty capsules.

Like fruits of the oceanic prairies, there floated past close bunches of dark grapes, leathery capsules filled with brackish water.

"Here are some one-grain quinine capsules," she said.

It was certainly pleasant to leave that village, which had been my home for the greater part of a year, without the feeling that there was no one in it who cared for me, even to the extent of a little box of quinine capsules.

Suddenly I stopped short in my thinking, and going to my bag I took from it the little box of quinine capsules which had been given to me by the doctor's daughter, and promptly proceeded to swallow one of them.

I opened it and took out the box of capsules.

I thought for a few minutes, and then I said to myself, "It seems to me this would be a good time to take one of those capsules," and I took one.

After sitting so long at the open window, thought I, it might be well to take one of these capsules, and I swallowed one.

The Trifolium medium is, at all events, a plant worth attention, and I think it might be easily brought into cultivation; for although it does not seed so abundantly as the T. pratense, I have observed it in places where a considerable quantity has been perfected, and where it might have been easily collected by gathering the capsules.

143 examples of  capsules  in sentences