The fluid and the solid parts settling down into a new sphere, might still retain nearly their former proportion: or, if the fragment took away a greater proportion of solid than of fluid, then the waters retiring to fill up the cavity, would leave parts bare which they had formerly covered.

If we should saw a tooth down through its center we would find in the interior a cavity.

The sense of smell is lodged in the delicate membrane which lines the nasal cavities.

The path, on quitting the convent, runs between the base of the rocks on its right and a little limpid lake on its left, the latter occupying nearly the entire cavity of the valley of the gorge.

The bottom of the drawer lifted, showing another cavity beneath.

The two layers thus form between them a Closed Sac a serous cavity (see Fig.

Cells oval or sub-globular, much compressed; avicularia short and broad, supporting a deep cup-like cavity.

Having given vent to the pus, and opened up the cavity made by its formation, the foot should be placed in a hot poultice or, preferably, in a hot antiseptic bath.[A] [Footnote A: At the time of writing this, a certain amount of discussion is going on in our veterinary journals as to whether a hot or a cold bath is the one indicated.

The marrow is richly supplied with blood-vessels, which enter the cavity through small openings in the compact tissue.

Tie variously colored yarns to the vessels, so that they may be distinguished when separated from the surrounding parts. Having separated the heart from the lungs, cut out a portion of the wall of the right ventricle towards its lower part, so as to lay the cavity open.

In a large bone, the insoluble matter is generally deposited in such a manner as to leave a cavity, into which a fatty substance, distinguished by the name of marrow, is thrown.

The thin layer of tissue which covers those internal cavities or passages which communicate with the external air.

The result is that the moisture blowing through the outer skin does not pass the cavity, but trickles down on the inner face of the outer wall, while the inner wall remains dry.

Flem He hasn't even got a cavity.

The upper 20 feet are formed of a peculiar kind of coral, growing in the shape of huge fans, spreading out from stout stems overlapping each other in clusters, and having angular cavities between.

Two or three blows with the cutlass, at the small end of the nut, cut off not only the pith-coat, but the point of the shell; and disclosethe nut being held carefully upright meanwhilea cavity full of perfectly clear water, slightly sweet, and so cold (the pith-coat being a good non-conductor of heat) that you are advised, for fear of cholera, to flavour it with a little brandy.

The stock had to be watered for several weeks, the power of the sun causing all the water that lodged it the cavities of the rocks to evaporate almost immediately.

When excision is deemed unwise or unnecessary, treatment should be directed towards maintaining the cavity in a state of asepsis.

He dug it himself, making a cavity in the rock.

While I was cutting down some wood for making my charcoal, I perceived a cavity behind a very thick branch of underwood.

Whether practising the method of plugging the cavity or that of excision of the wall external to it, attempts to quickly obtain a new growth of horn from the coronet should be made.

The area within might contain a hundred acres while the wall preserved a very even height of about sixty feet, falling a little below this at the leeward side, where there existed one narrow hole, or passage, on a level with the bottom of the crater; a sort of gateway, by which to enter and quit the cavity.

It has been ascertained, that when one of the spores falls upon the body of a fly, it begins to germinate, and sends out a process which bores its way through the fly's skin; this, having reached the interior cavities of its body, gives off the minute floating corpuscles which are the earliest stage of the Empusa.

" We at length got over the wood, and, letting our ship down in the same manner, fell into smooth clear water, till we came to a horrid precipice, hollow and deep, resembling the cavity made by an earthquake.

A large, thin muscle which separates the cavity of the chest from the abdomen.