 | Parker Cleaveland - Geology - 1816 - 702 pages
...composed of granular, distinct concretions,t easdy separable, often by the finger only, and varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, or still larger. These concretions are bounded by smooth, but irregular faces, often a little convex... | |
 | Parker Cleaveland - Geology - 1822 - 886 pages
...composed of granular, distinct concretions, easily separable, often by the finger only, and varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, or still larger. —Hence its name from the Greek xo*r,o«, a grain, and Ai0«s, a stone — • These... | |
 | John Shaw - Anatomy, Surgical and topographical - 1822 - 416 pages
...disease, we shall find groupes of little white, or variegated bodies, which are called Tubercles. — They vary in size, from that of a pin's head to that of a bean. When the disease is farther advanced, the tubercles make the surface of the lung hard and irregular;... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - Berwickshire (Scotland) - 1890 - 678 pages
...A small species easily recognised by its dark colour and globose or hemispherical shape. The fronds vary in size from that of a pin's head to that of a small pea. T. CONFLTTENS (Ktz.} Farlow, De»cr. Rivnlaria ati i, Tar. confluens, furlnir. Ie, p.... | |
 | 1839 - 652 pages
...scalp; nor is it confined to the outer surface of the body, but extends itself to the form, and varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea. No itching attends its presence on the skin, nor is desquamation of the cuticle an ordinary const-quence.... | |
 | William Prout - Bladder - 1840 - 642 pages
...as of two kinds, the coloured and the white. The coloured varieties are by far the most common. They vary in size, from that of a pin's head to that of an almond. Their form is irregular, but generally elongated. The surface is usually rough ; and the... | |
 | 1843 - 608 pages
...sand or gravel, until they exceed two or three lines in diameter. Those worthy of the name of calculi vary in size from that of a pin's head to that of a turkey's egg, and beyond ; some weigh a few grains, others several pounds. Specific Gravity.— That... | |
 | Medicine - 1843 - 744 pages
...sand or gravel, until they exceed two or three lines in diameter. Those worthy of the name of calculi vary in size from that of a pin's head to that of a turkey's egg, and beyond ; some weigh a few grains, others several pounds. » , , »i Specific Gravity.... | |
 | Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis - Chest - 1844 - 618 pages
...noticed in the case of phthisis, the parictes of the heart only contained a few particles of fat, varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, placed between the fibres of the columna; carncae, in immediate contact with the lining membrane of... | |
 | Sir John Forbes, Alexander Tweedie, John Conolly - Medicine - 1845 - 788 pages
...appearance of irregularity to the surface. They consist of a brownish or yellowish white soliil matter. They vary in size from that of a pin's head to that of • hazel-nut, tome of them even exceeding this. The liver is in such cases indurated, and its lower... | |
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At first small gray specks or elevated gray spots (glanders-nodules), varying in size from that of a pin's head to that of a pea, make their appearance (Fig. 
