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  • ADEPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADEPS

    ADEPS, in Anatomy, is a type of Fat, found in the Cavities of the Abdomen. See FAT.Adeps differs from the common fat, called Pinguedo, in that it is thicker, harder, and of a more earthy substance.See PINGUEDO.Adeps is much the same as what we call...

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

  • AXUNGIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXUNGIA

    a kind of fat, the softest and moistest of any in the bodies of animals. See FAT. It is different from lard, which is a firm fat; and from suet leaf, or adeps, which is a kind of dry fat. The Latins distinguish fat into pinguedo, called also axungia;...

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

  • ADIPOSAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADIPOSA

    Adiposa Membrana, in anatomy, is a membrane investing the body, immediately under the cutis;supposed to be the basis of the fat, which is lodged in the spaces between its fibers and in peculiar cells formed herein. See FAT, CUTIS, etc. Anatomists are...

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

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    Bones, Muscles, Nerves, Arteries, Veins, Cartilages, Ligaments, Membranes, etc.—Under the Fluids, come Chyle, Blood, Milk, Fat, Lymph, etc.-see each under its proper Article, BONE, MUSCLE, NERVE, ARTERY, VEIN, CARTILAGE, MEMBRANE, etc. See also CHYLE,...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    a German Monk, who having thrown some of it to the Hogs, observed, that after purging them violently, they immediately grew fat upon it. This made him think that by giving his Fellow-Monks a like Dose, they would be the better for it. The Experiment,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • AMBROSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AMBROSIA

    the other the Drink of the Gods, were not so excellent as the Poets describe them; since they would leave them for Blood and Fat, which they come to suck from the Altars like Flies. The Word is compounded of the Privative Particle α, and βροτός, Mortal;...

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

  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    in the Nature of a liquid Pitch, from the Earth which lies under this Sea; and being thrown upon the Water, swims like other fat Bodies, and condenses by little and little, through the Heat of the Sun, and the Salt that is in it. The Arabs use it to...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    a diversity of Parts, some hard, as Bones; others soft, as Muscles, Nerves, Membranes, etc.; others fluid, as Blood, Fat, etc. Now ’tis not possible the Bones should be broke or displaced in the Body, unless the Weight lay heavier on one Part than...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    See LIFE, SLEEP, BLOOD, CIRCULATION, FOETUS, &c. Hence 'tis no wonder that Tortoises, Dormice, Bears, &c. are found as fat and fleshy after some Months Abstinence as before.---— Sir G. Ent weigh'd his Tortoise several Years succesfively, at his going to...

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

  • ATTRAHENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTRAHENTS

    Digestives, etc. See RIPENER, DIGESTION, etc. The principal Simples belonging to this Class are the several Kinds of Fats, or Adipes; the Dungs of Pigeons and Cows; Bran, Yeast, Herring, the Sucking of a Leech, Melilot, Tobacco, Oil, Pitch, Rosin,...

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