"Pharynx" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the infected animal. The pneumococcus for example occurs in the sputum of patients suffering from acute lobar pneumonia, but usually in association with various saprophytes derived from the mouth and pharynx. The optimum medium for the growth of the pneumococcus, blood agar, is also an excellent pabulum for the saprophytes of the mouth, and plate cultures are rapidly overgrown by them to the destruction of the more ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... great vessels, and found the bruit de souffle, which he had detected in the morning at the apex of the heart and over the carotids. The handle of a spoon pressed against the velum, the base of the tongue, and the pharynx, provoked no effort at vomiting. The glasses of our spectacles, as they came in contact with the air expired, were covered with vapor. As the patient appeared to suffer from our presence, we ...
— Fasting Girls - Their Physiology and Pathology • William Alexander Hammond
... characteristic features of the Ascidians, the same arrangement of organs, the same kind of nervous system, a respiratory chamber formed from the fore part of the alimentary canal, and a peculiar organ running along the pharynx which Huxley called the endostyle and which is one of the most striking peculiarities of the whole group. The real nature of the tail was Huxley's most striking discovery. He pointed out that ordinary Ascidians ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell
... masters, is there any danger of the plague here? O Lord! said they, they die hard by here so fast that the cart runs about the streets. Good God! said I, and where? Whereunto they answered that it was in Larynx and Pharynx, which are two great cities such as Rouen and Nantes, rich and of great trading. And the cause of the plague was by a stinking and infectious exhalation which lately vapoured out of the abysms, whereof there have died above two and twenty hundred and threescore ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... affections, such as inflamed eyes, diseased ears, skin diseases, catarrh of the nose, pharynx or bronchials, inflammation of the joints and suppuration are not caused through the cooperation of tubercle-bacilli. But here the same find an excellent soil for growth and propagation, and they use the same to the full extent and so give ...
— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum |
