porosities

And why, I ask, is recourse had to secret and invisible porosities, to uncertain and obscure channels, to explain the passage of the blood into the left ventricle, when there is so open a way through the pulmonary veins?

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

Does the blood accumulate below the ligature coming through the veins, or through the arteries, or passing by certain hidden porosities?

On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals 2005

And just as oil can be made to gush from the minute porosities of rock or even heavy green Texan marble, so, at Viguerie's bidding, money gushed from the conservative American bedrock.

Among the Republicans Naipaul, V.S. 1984

Does the blood accumulate below the ligature coming through the veins, or through the arteries, or passing by certain hidden porosities?

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

And why, I ask, is recourse had to secret and invisible porosities, to uncertain and obscure channels, to explain the passage of the blood into the left ventricle, when there is so open a way through the pulmonary veins?

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

Dissection consequently shows distinctly what takes place in the majority of animals, and indeed in all, up to the period of their maturity; and that the same thing occurs in adults is equally certain, both from Galen's words, and what has already been said, only that in the former the transit is effected by open and obvious passages, in the latter by the hidden porosities of the lungs and the minute inosculations of vessels.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

Since this defect exists in each of the pieces that have been prepared in succession, it will be seen that when they come to be superposed for the moulding of the piece, the mould as a whole will be formed of zones of different porosities, which will absorb water from the paste unequally.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various

And why, I ask, is recourse had to secret and invisible porosities, to uncertain and obscure channels, to explain the passage of the blood into the left ventricle, when there is so open a way through the pulmonary veins?

Introduction 1909

Dissection consequently shows distinctly what takes place in the majority of animals, and indeed in all, up to the period of their maturity; and that the same thing occurs in adults is equally certain, both from Galen’s words, and what has already been said, only that in the former the transit is effected by open and obvious passages, in the latter by the hidden porosities of the lungs and the minute inosculations of vessels.

VII. The Blood Passes Through the Substance of the Lungs from the Right Ventricle of the Heart into the Pulmonary Veins and Left Ventricle 1909

Does the blood accumulate below the ligature coming through the veins, or through the arteries, or passing by certain hidden porosities?

XI. The Second Position Is Demonstrated 1909