"Secretory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Crypts: minute secretory follicles or cavities: specifically, large gland-like structures between the epithelial ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... secretory tube of the testicle, so that when it is occluded, the secretion is dammed back, and degeneration and atrophy of the organ are induced. It soon wastes, and becomes as functionless as ...
— The Fertility of the Unfit • William Allan Chapple
... apparatus and serve to place the central nervous organs in connection with peripheral end organs. The nerve cells, however, besides transmitting impulses, act as physiological centers for automatic, or reflex, movements, and also for the sensory, perceptive, trophic, and secretory functions. A nerve consists of a bundle of tubular fibers, held together by a dense areolar tissue, and inclosed in a membranous sheath—the neurilemma. Nerve fibers possess no elasticity, but are very strong. ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... sometimes noticed, that the duodenum contained the coffee ground matter, and the intestines, coagulated blood. In such cases, in order to adopt the opinion of secretion, we must believe, that the same vessels, occupied in the secretory process, afforded, at the same time, passage to a portion of common blood; for we can hardly admit, that the mucous follicles are the organs secreting the black matter. Besides, is this not a mere dispute about words; and is it proved that what are ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various
... products which it is its special function to remove. The close relationship of the proper activity of the skin to health is perhaps not generally sufficiently appreciated—for it is true that the body cannot remain normal when the secretory power of its glands is impaired, and that even death quickly follows when they cease to ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris |
