Control of Body and MindGinn, 1908 - 267 páginas |
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... DENDRITES 172 XXIV . IN ORDER TO REMEMBER 180 XXV . STEPS TO TAKE ; OR CHOICE , ATTENTION , AND WILL POWER . 191 XXVI . EFFECT OF DRUG AND DRINK ON BRAIN AND CHARACTER 203 XXVII . BUNDLES OF HABITS 213 XXVIII . FREEDOM AND SLAVERY 220 ...
... DENDRITES 172 XXIV . IN ORDER TO REMEMBER 180 XXV . STEPS TO TAKE ; OR CHOICE , ATTENTION , AND WILL POWER . 191 XXVI . EFFECT OF DRUG AND DRINK ON BRAIN AND CHARACTER 203 XXVII . BUNDLES OF HABITS 213 XXVIII . FREEDOM AND SLAVERY 220 ...
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... dendrites are black ; B and C show the nucleus distance and has branches that extend from it at right angles . This long arm has its own name . It is called an axon . A nerve cell never has more than one axon . All the nerves that we ...
... dendrites are black ; B and C show the nucleus distance and has branches that extend from it at right angles . This long arm has its own name . It is called an axon . A nerve cell never has more than one axon . All the nerves that we ...
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... dendrites , because " dendron " is the Greek word for tree . Since the nerve cell as a whole is a complete indi ... dendrites . We might express it thus : neuron = cell body axon dendrites CHAPTER X STRUCTURE OF NERVE MACHINE ( CONTINUED ) ...
... dendrites , because " dendron " is the Greek word for tree . Since the nerve cell as a whole is a complete indi ... dendrites . We might express it thus : neuron = cell body axon dendrites CHAPTER X STRUCTURE OF NERVE MACHINE ( CONTINUED ) ...
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... dendrites may also increase in num- ber on the different cells , but the cell body of each neuron is forever stationary . It is not entirely separated , however , from other cells of its kind . On the contrary , the cell bodies of the ...
... dendrites may also increase in num- ber on the different cells , but the cell body of each neuron is forever stationary . It is not entirely separated , however , from other cells of its kind . On the contrary , the cell bodies of the ...
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... dendrites and axons . The white stuff is a compact mass of axons , each one of which stretches away with its silvery sheath from its GANGLION OF A SPINAL ROOT CUT OPEN Here we see cells and axons individual cell in the gray layer ...
... dendrites and axons . The white stuff is a compact mass of axons , each one of which stretches away with its silvery sheath from its GANGLION OF A SPINAL ROOT CUT OPEN Here we see cells and axons individual cell in the gray layer ...
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Página 225 - I won't count this time!" Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do, is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
Página 226 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 225 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 238 - Edinburgh ) from the market-place opposite, laboring under a terrible accident. The man, on trying to hook up a heavy piece of meat above his head, slipped, and the sharp hook penetrated his arm, so that he himself was suspended. On being examined, he was pale, almost pulseless, and expressed himself as suffering acute agony. The arm could not be moved without causing excessive pain, and in cutting off the sleeve he frequently cried out ; yet when the arm was exposed it was found to be quite uninjured,...
Página 225 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 195 - I said to the master of the house, "I will prove to you that my son can read through a wall. Will you lend me a book?" I was naturally conducted to the library in question, which I pretended now to see for the first time, and I laid my finger on a book. "Emile," I said to my son, "what is the name of this work?
Página 188 - On came the whirlwind — steel-gleams broke Like lightning through the rolling smoke ; The war was waked anew, Three hundred cannon-mouths roar'd loud, And from their throats, with flash and cloud, Their showers of iron threw.
Página 195 - But," he added, "had you asked the name of the book on the left, sir, I should have said Lamartine's Poetry. A little to the right of this row, I see Crebillon's works; below, two volumes of Fleury's Memoirs"; and my son thus named a dozen books before he stopped. The spectators had not said a word during this description, as they felt so amazed; but when the experiment had ended, all complimented us by clapping their hands.
Página 186 - For it appeared, that it had been the old man's custom, for .years, to walk up and down a passage of his house into which the kitchen door opened, and to read to himself with a loud voice, out of his favorite books.