The stomach is well muscled and churns the food about, helping to comminute it, but it can not take the place of the teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
For here again it is because the mouth fails to perform its office and fails even more completely-for birds have no teeth at all, nor any instrument whatsoever with which to comminute or grind down their food-it is. From Wordnik.com. [On the Parts of Animals] Reference
Even after taking all possible precautions to finely comminute these substances by mechanical means, still only imperfect results are obtained, for the impurities, that is to say, the sand, can never be so intimately mixed with the lighter particles that a sample of 0.5 to. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882] Reference
That the stomach is fully able to comminute the food may be proved by the following calculation. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference
A counsel that I scholarly fresh was to acquire the full flaxseeds and acquire a affordable drink hoagy and comminute up the oilseed up as you requirement it. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
This would involve a large amount of unnecessary physiological labor, to comminute, dissolve, and absorb the food, and to excrete the superfluous nitrogenous matter. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
So this question becomes urgent: Why, the absolute's own total vision of things being so rational, was it necessary to comminute it into all these coexisting inferior fragmentary visions?. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
He explained that he had introduced a chisel through his perineal fistula to the stone, and attempted to comminute it himself and thus remove it, and by so doing had removed about an ounce of the calculus. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Granted that no one can draw a clear line and define the limits within which a miracle is healthy working and beyond which it is unwholesome, any more than he can prescribe the exact degree of fineness to which we must comminute our food; granted, again, that some can do more than others, and that at all times all men sport, so to speak, and surpass themselves, still we know as a general rule near enough, and find that the strongest can do but very little at a time, and, to return to Mr. Spencer, the fusion of two such hitherto unassociated ideas as race and experience was a miracle beyond our strength. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
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