 | 1836 - 562 páginas
...membrane, is external to the belly of the animal, and is used for the purpose of progressive motion ; while that half of each rib next the spine, as far as the...tapering to the point. Those of the opposite ribs have no connexion, and when the ribs are drawn outwards by the muscles, they are separated to some distance,... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1852 - 446 páginas
...is external to the belly of the animal, and is employed for the purpose of progression ; while the half of each rib next the spine, as far as the lungs extend, is made ancillary to respiration. At the termination of each rib is a small cartilage, corresponding in... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 páginas
...membrane, is external to the belly of the animal, and is used for the purpose of progressive motion ; while that half of each rib next the spine, as far as the...and when the ribs are drawn outwards by the muscles, they are separated to some distance, and rest through their whole length on the inner surface of the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 páginas
...membrane, is external to the belly of the animal, and is used for the purpose of progressive motion ; while that half of each rib next the spine, as far as the...tapering to the point. Those of the opposite ribs have uo connection, and when the ribs are drawn outwards by the muscles, they are separated to some distance,... | |
 | Louis Guillaume Figuier - 1873 - 772 páginas
...the animal, and is used for the purpose of progressive motion, while that half of each rib which is next the spine, as far as the lungs extend, is employed in respiration. These observations of Sir Everard Home apply to all Snakes ; but the muscles were compared with a skeleton... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1851 - 726 páginas
...external to the belly of the animal, and is employed for the Eurpose of progression ; while the air of each rib next the spine, as far as the lungs extend, is made ancillary to respiration. At the termination of each rib is a small cartilage, corresponding in... | |
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... middle tendon, so that the lower half of each rib which is beyond the origin of this muscle, and which is only laterally connected to it by loose cellular membrane, is external to the belly of the animal, and is used for the purpose of progressive... 