To the very remarkable conclusion that a unity of plan, of the same kind as that discoverable in the tail or abdomen of the lobster, pervades the whole organisation of its skeleton, so that I can return to the diagram representing any one of the rings of the tail, which I drew upon the board, and by adding a third division to each appendage, I can use it as a sort of scheme or plan of any ring of the body.

Abdomen beneath yellow, each segment margined with brown, the pygidium yellow, with two largish oblique black spots.

The dam now struck him upon the abdomen with a force that deprived him for awhile of breath, and tore it open, so that when he rose his bowels fell upon his knees.

But, in order to afford a support to the abdomen in the best manner, it is by no means necessary that the bandage should be drawn very tight.

He struck her only two blows, for the second one cut open her side and abdomen with a frightful gash.

The compression of the chest and abdomen by a tight belt and various binders interferes with the action of the diaphragm,the most important muscle of respiration.

Having crawled about for a short time, to reconnoitre, they turned their abdomens from the current of air, and elevated them almost perpendicularly, supporting themselves solely on the claws of their fore legs, at the same instant shooting out four or five, often six or eight, extremely fine webs, several yards long, which waved in the breeze, diverging from each other like a pencil of rays, and strongly reflecting the sunbeams.

49.Showing the Principal Organs of the Thorax and Abdomen in situ.

Their peritoneum is extremely loaded with fat, and a layer of fat reaches from the abdomen to the anus, forming a kind of cushion between the legs of the bird.

The tray leaped from his hands and he went staggering about like a drunken man, even banging his abdomen against the balustrade of the bridge.

" Whaley sat up, groaned, and pressed his hands upon the abdomen at the point where he had been struck.

Abdomen above black, the base and the edges of four of the segments whitish, last segment bright crimson; below, whitish at the base, crimson beyond the middle.

He advanced threateningly, grasping his bludgeon by the smaller end, but when he had approached within a couple of paces I made a sudden lunge with my stick, introducing its ferrule to his abdomen about the region of the solar plexus.