"Nerve tissue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I agreed with her, that it was a mistake to be so far from the business center. That the time, car fare, and nerve tissue wasted between Park Place and Harlem were of more moment than a few dollars' difference in the ...
— The Van Dwellers - A Strenuous Quest for a Home • Albert Bigelow Paine
... region, and results from forcible stretching of the cord by acute flexion of the neck. The blood is usually effused into the anterior cornua of the grey matter and into the central canal, and there is a varying degree of laceration of the nerve tissue, in addition to pressure exerted by ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... though that knowledge be but superficial. Taking the intestines, for example, we see under the microscope that they are composed of layers of different tissues, called connective, epithelial, muscle, and nerve tissue; the first two forming a large part ...
— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison
... continues with greater or less rapidity from puberty to old age, though at the two extremes of existence they are imperfectly developed. When not discharged from the body, they are said to be absorbed. Some physiologists claim that they are composed of a substance identical with nerve tissue, and that by absorption they play a very important part in the development and maintenance ...
— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg |
