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  • Afferent, the city bus cramps to the curb and brakes through

    American Papyrus: 25 Poems

  • Afferent, the city bus cramps to the curb and brakes through

    American Papyrus: 25 Poems

  • The Coroner himself had had business relations with French persons in his opacity as a solicitor, and could assure such of the jury as had never been in France that they ought to allow for hese Afferent standards.

    Clouds of Witness Sayers, Dorothy L. 1927

  • Sympathetic Afferent Fibers of the Vagus, whose cells of origin lie in the jugular ganglion or the ganglion nodosum, probably terminate in the dorsal nucleus of the medulla oblongata or according to some authors in the nucleus of the tractus solitarius.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

  • Afferent sympathetic fibers conduct impulses from the pelvic viscera to the second, third and fourth sacral nerves.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

  • Afferent vessels are represented by continuous lines, and efferent and internodular vessels by dotted lines.

    Illustrations. Fig. 621 1918

  • Afferent fibers are believed to reach the corpus mammillare from the medial lemniscus and from the tegmentum.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

  • Sympathetic Afferent Fibers, whose cells of origin lie in the superior or inferior ganglion of the trunk, are supposed to terminate in the dorsal nucleus.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

  • Afferent vessels are represented by continuous lines, and efferent and internodular vessels by dotted lines.

    VIII. The Lymphatic System. 7. The Lymphatic Vessels of the Thorax 1918

  • The Sympathetic Afferent Fibers of the Glossopharyngeal Nerve are supposed to arise either in the dorsal nucleus (nucleus ala cinerea) or in a distinct nucleus, the inferior salivatory nucleus, situated near the dorsal nucleus.

    IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves 1918

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