 ... had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what...  The Microscope - Page 218de Jabez Hogg - 1856 - 457 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1857 - 878 pages
...have been two inches in diameter, and that hud somehow contrived to swallow a valve of Pecten maximum of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell fixed...tensely over had become thin and flattened like a pancako. All communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1845 - 612 pages
...originally two inches in diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of Pecten maximus of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed...two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over it, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication between the inferior portion of... | |
 | 1847 - 282 pages
...in diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of Pecten maximus (the scallop shell) of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell fixed...completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tightly over, had become thin and flattened like a pancake." This species is liable to great variation... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 606 pages
...originally two inches in diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of Pecten maximut of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed...two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over it, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication between the inferior portion of... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...might have been originally two inches in diameter, but had somehow contrived to swallow a scallop shell the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell fixed within...was so placed as to divide it completely into two equal parts, so that the body stretched over it had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication... | |
 | 1851 - 1000 pages
...originally two inches in diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of Pecten maximus of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed...over, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. AH communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was, of course, prevented... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of the great scallop (Pccten maximus), of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed...portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course preventsd, yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...originally two inches in diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of Pecten maximus, of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed...placed as to divide it completely into two halves; 8O that the body, stretched tensely over, had become thin, and flattened like a pancake. All communication... | |
 | 1857 - 820 pages
...have been two inches in diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of Pectén maximus of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell fixed...between the inferior portion of the stomach and the month was of course prevented ; yet instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1858 - 644 pages
...of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed within (1) Mr. Tugwell's Manual of Sea-Anemones. the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely...was of course prevented; yet, instead of emaciating Fig. 193. 1, Actinia rubra. Sea marigold, near which is one shown retracted. 2, Actinia bellia, Daisy... | |
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