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effort of physical strength is required; that is to say, the epitonos or back-stay
and the shoulder-sinews. Other sinews, devoid of specific designation, are
situated in the region of the flexures of the bones; for all the bones that are
attached to one another are bound together by sinews, and a great quantity of
sinews are placed in the neighbourhood of all the bones. Only, by the way, in
the head there is no sinew; but the head is held together by the sutures of the
bones.
Sinew is fissile lengthwise, but crosswise it is not easily broken, but admits
of a considerable amount of hard tension. In connexion with sinews a liquid
mucus is developed, white and glutinous, and the organ, in fact, is sustained
by it and appears to be substantially composed of it. Now, vein may be
submitted to the actual cautery, but sinew, when submitted to such action,
shrivels up altogether; and, if sinews be cut asunder, the severed parts will not
again cohere. A feeling of numbness is incidental only to parts of the frame
where sinew is situated.
There is a very extensive system of sinews connected severally with the
feet, the hands, the ribs, the shoulder-blades, the neck, and the arms.
All animals supplied with blood are furnished with sinews; but in the case
of animals that have no flexures to their limbs, but are, in fact, destitute of
either feet or hands, the sinews are fine and inconspicuous; and so, as might
have been anticipated, the sinews in the fish are chiefly discernible in
connexion with the fin.
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The ines (or fibrous connective tissue) are a something intermediate
between sinew and vein. Some of them are supplied with fluid, the lymph;
and they pass from sinew to vein and from vein to sinew. There is another
kind of ines or fibre that is found in blood, but not in the blood of all animals
alike. If this fibre be left in the blood, the blood will coagulate; if it be
removed or extracted, the blood is found to be incapable of coagulation.
While, however, this fibrous matter is found in the blood of the great majority
of animals, it is not found in all. For instance, we fail to find it in the blood of
the deer, the roe, the antelope, and some other animals; and, owing to this
deficiency of the fibrous tissue, the blood of these animals does not coagulate
to the extent observed in the blood of other animals. The blood of the deer
coagulates to about the same extent as that of the hare: that is to the blood in
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156