A portion of the crassamentum treat - cd in that manner, was triturated with water as long as it appeared capable of acting as a solvent. From Wordnik.com. [Medico-Chirurgical Transanction] Reference
As oxygen penetrates the fine moist membranes of the air-vessels of the lungs, and unites with the blood by a chemical attraction, as is seen to happen, when blood is drawn into a bason, the lower surface of the crassamentum is of a very dark red so long as it is covered from the air by the upper surface, but becomes florid in a short time on its being exposed to the atmosphere; the manner of its introduction into the system is not probably by animal absorption but by chemical attraction, in which circumstance it differs from the fluids before mentioned both of heat and electricity, and of ether and essential oils. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
It was real blood, composed of lymph and crassamentum, and not a mere celestial ichor, as the Phantasmists allege. ". From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
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