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... direction and tending to turn the tail of the cock in that direction . In this way we may account not only for the setting of the weathercock but for its oscillations about its final position . This , therefore , is entitled to rank as ...
... direction and tending to turn the tail of the cock in that direction . In this way we may account not only for the setting of the weathercock but for its oscillations about its final position . This , therefore , is entitled to rank as ...
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... direction of studying the structure and independent action of the several constituent machines of the body and of ... directions attending the conception of organs and functions encour- aged physiologists to speak of the liver as an ...
... direction of studying the structure and independent action of the several constituent machines of the body and of ... directions attending the conception of organs and functions encour- aged physiologists to speak of the liver as an ...
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... direction which its mechanical build gave to the efforts of its constituent units . Such a view seemed to have touched the goal , when , in the first half of this century , the so - called " cell - theory " was enunciated as a physio ...
... direction which its mechanical build gave to the efforts of its constituent units . Such a view seemed to have touched the goal , when , in the first half of this century , the so - called " cell - theory " was enunciated as a physio ...
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... direction the sphere flattens itself into a disk , or takes on the shape of a pear , or of a rounded triangle , or assumes a wholly irregular , often star - shaped or branched form . Each of these transformations is simply a ...
... direction the sphere flattens itself into a disk , or takes on the shape of a pear , or of a rounded triangle , or assumes a wholly irregular , often star - shaped or branched form . Each of these transformations is simply a ...
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... direction . We have further a certain amount of evidence that trypsinogen arises from an antecedent more complex than itself , as it in turn is more complex than trypsin . So , although clear demonstration is not as yet within our reach ...
... direction . We have further a certain amount of evidence that trypsinogen arises from an antecedent more complex than itself , as it in turn is more complex than trypsin . So , although clear demonstration is not as yet within our reach ...
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