Elementary anatomy and physiology - for colleges, academies, and other schools (1869) (21214161705)
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Title: Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools
Identifier: elementaryanato00hitc (find matches)
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864; Hitchcock, Edward, 1828-1911
Subjects: Anatomy; Physiology
Publisher: New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co. ; Chicago : S. C. Griggs & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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AND PHYSIOLOGY. 233 additional impulse to the blood as it is forced into the pulmo- nary arteries The need of this arrangement is to give a full supply of blood to the lungs, which the ordinary powers of the heart could not effect. Fig. 231.
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Arterial System of a Bird. A-teries of the Grebe, a, Aorta, am, One of its large Branches. It gives off the Carotid (ac) and Subclavian, is ultimately distributed to the muscles of the chest, and corresponds to the mammary arteries of mammals, ad, One of the Branches of the Vertebral Artery supplying the Muscles of the Shoulder, ce, Arterial Loops formed by the Branches of the External Carotid, al, Lingual Artery, t, Trachea, or wind-pipe. ar, Renal Arteries, ai, Ischiatic Artery proceeding to the lower extremities, as, Sac- ral Artery, forming a continuation of the Aorta, and giving origin to the Inferior Mesen- teric Artery, etc. c/, The Cloaca. Why do the valves have an especial muscle ?