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  • ADDUCTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADDUCTION

    ADDUCTION, in Anatomy, the Motion or Action of the Adducent Muscles. See ADDUCTION, and ADDUCTOR. ADDUCTION

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy

  • ACHILLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLES

    and Ulcers. The tendon of Achilles, Corda Achillis, is a large Tendon, formed by the Union of the Tendons of the four Muscles of the Foot, called Extensors. See TENDON, and FOOT. It is so called, because the fatal Wound whereby Achilles is said to have...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANNULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNULAR

    LIGAMENT. Its use is to connect or bind the two Bones of the Arm together; and also to restrain the Tendons of the several Muscles of the Hand and Fingers, and prevent their flying out of their places, when in Action. See CARPUS, HAND, FINGER, etc. The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANGINAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANGINA

    Squinancy, or Squinancy. See SQUINANCY. Angina is a Difficulty of Respiration and Deglutition, from a Disease in the Muscles and Glands about the Throat and Larynx. See LARYNX, &c. The Word is formed from the Greek ἄγχω, to strangle, suffocate. If any...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    black, his Intestines swell'd as big as one's Arm, inslamed and red as Blood • an d what was most extraordinary, all the Muscles of his Arms, Thighs and Legs, torn and separated from their Parts. The Magistrate, at length, taking Cognizance of the Case,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATLAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLAS

    turn about as often as the Head moves round, had there been any spiny Apophyses, it would have incommoded the Motion of the Muscles in the Extension of the Head. It is also of a finer and firmer Texture than the other Vertebrae; and it differs further...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    A is observ'd to be that which dumb Persons are soonest taught to pronounce. The Reason is, that it does not depend on the Muscles, and other Organs of the Mouth, and Tongue, which are generally wanting in Mutes ; but on those of the Throat and Nose,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Grammar

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    viz. Bones, as Cranium. Rib, Vertebra, Radius, Femur, Tibia. Sacrum, Pubis, Patella, &c. Their Articulation, Apophyses, &c. Muscles, Abductor, Adductor, Erector, Depressor, Deltoides, Sartorius, Cucullaris, Orbicularis, Sphincter, &c. Their Tendons,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    only implies a certain Motion of the Arm, but this Motion, effected by the successive Contraction and Dilatation of certain Muscles, &c., has every thing that is essential to a Term. In the same Sense, a Staff is a Term as much as a Lever; and a Fin, as...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction
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