The brain and nerves, too, we shall find, are made up of fibres, and these queer-looking things that are called ganglionic corpuscles. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Consciousness is but an adjunct which arises when the physical processes, owing to infrequency of repetition, complexity of operation, or other causes, involve what I have before called ganglionic friction. ". From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
Periopticon: third ganglionic swelling of optic tract: see opticon. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Epiopticon: the second ganglionic swelling of the optic tract: see opticon. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Opticon: the first of a series of three ganglionic swellings in the optic nerve: see epiopticon and periopticon. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
According to Brown and Eccles30 this is 80-100 omega in the case of the heart, but only 2 omega in the ganglionic synapse. From Wordnik.com. [Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Whenever it is so the activity of the ganglionic system must be in excess, or that of the cerebro-spinal system must be deficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
It may be stated in the following formula: "Secure the predominance of the cerebro-spinal system over the activity of the ganglionic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
But, fortified by Nimrod's assurance that it was 'purely reflex neuro-ganglionic movement,' I hardened my heart and captured his 'pod of dry peas.'. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
Yet how could the first deviation from the ganglionic system of the nerves of the invertebrates to the cerebro-spinal system of the vertebrates have occurred?. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
An impression made on one part of the sympathetic system is easily communicated to another, and to the ganglionic masses of the visceral plexuses, already described. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
These latter functions are themselves effected with more regularity and more force, when the activity of the cerebro-spinal system predominates over that of the ganglionic. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Therefore, all Rollo's actions were ganglionic discharges; mechanically determined by the instincts that had been developed and fixed in the species thousands of years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Animals] Reference
The change of life, in health and disease: A clinical treatise on the diseases of the ganglionic nervous system inciental to women at the decline of life by Edward John Tilt. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Paul Krugman: On Hillary Clinton and John Edwards' Health Care Plan] Reference
They could clearly see the ganglionic complex, the flow of blood through a nearby cerebral capillary, the neurons which connected the nodule to the rest of the patient's brain. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
The ganglionic nervous excitement coincident with the maturation of the ovule and the congestion of the uterus, is easily communicated to the vaso-motor nerves of the latter organ. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
The functions of animal life, presided over by the cerebro-spinal system, become proportionately more important than those of vegetative or nutritive life, carried on by the ganglionic. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
In general exhaustion of the nervous system, both of its ganglionic and cerebro-spinal apparatus, the vaso-motor nerves suffer with the rest, and the blood-vessels lose their tone in consequence. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Each, therefore, acts like a minute brain; and, in fact, the entire ganglionic system of nerves is analogous to the nervous system of certain among the lower animals -- the crustacea and mollusks. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
A third proposition is, moreover, common to both, namely, that repose of the cerebro-spinal system is not required throughout the entire period of ganglionic activity, unless in exceptionally morbid cases. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
It gives us a metric for inter-ganglionic distance in a. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Heretofore, the operations described have been entirely ganglionic. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
There was, however, in Tilton a want of ganglionic power; he was all brain. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
The ganglionic power carried the brain; but there were, of course, combinations of all grades. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
Clearly, therefore, it is not mere complexity of ganglionic action that determines consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
(×500) I have been able to make out ganglionic enlargements both in the circular band and in the stripes. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
The grief that can express itself is well diluted; in fact, grief often is a beneficent stimulus of the ganglionic cells. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers] Reference
The whole may be arranged under two divisions: First, the cerebrospinal system; second, the sympathetic or ganglionic system. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
The ganglionic power was that which kept people always growing, and was the great means of their getting a hold over other people. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
Or, stay! there is another way to stimulate the ganglionic cells and become dexterous in the cosmic potentiality -- the Daily Theme sent to. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference
Wrapped up in its heredity, and determined long before it was born, is a certain limited capacity of ganglionic response to eternal stimuli. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
Nolz1 is a zinc finger transcription factor whose expression is enriched in the lateral ganglionic eminence (LGE), although its function is still unknown. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
Therefore, all Rollo's actions were ganglionic discharges mechanically determined by the instincts that had been developed and fixed in the species thousands of years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
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