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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
functionate .
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Science is _systematized knowing_, and is a middle term, or stands and functionates mediatorially between Impression or Nature and Expression or Art. Nature or the external world impresses itself upon mind, primarily, through the Senses, and predominantly stands related with the sense of
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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-- The hock joint is often subjected to great strain because of the structural nature of this part and its relation to the hip as well as the manner in which the tarsus functionates during locomotion.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Because of the manner in which the patella functionates with the trochlea of the femur, comparatively little energy is required to prevent further flexion of the stifle joint.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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He is integrated by fear, and as fear takes precedence over all other impulses, no organ functionates normally.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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The apparatus functionates perfectly and the calorimeter room can be held at 20° C. day in and day out, whether the temperature outdoors is 40° below or 100° above 0° F.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913
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This apparatus functionates very satisfactorily, raising the man or lowering him upon the knife-edges of the balance with the greatest regularity and ease.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913
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The cricopharyngeus muscle functionates in starting the foreign body downward as if it were food; but the narrowing at the upper thoracic aperture arrests it because the esophageal peristaltic musculature is feeble as compared to the powerful inferior constrictor.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The powerful tendon of the quadriceps extensor muscle, in which the patella is developed as a sesamoid bone, protects and strengthens the front of the joint and functionates as the anterior ligament of the joint.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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