... presses the sides of the arteries with greater force than it acts against the coats of the veins. To prevent any danger from this difference of pressure, the arteries are formed of much tougher and stronger materials than the veins. This is one difference... Harry Beaufroy, Or, The Pupil of Nature - Página 103por Maria Hack - 1824 - 194 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 páginas
...In all this there is abundant evidence of wise contrivance. The blood in going out from the heart, is continually passing from wide tubes into those...stronger materials than the veins. This is one difference between the two ; there is another still more strikingly illustrative of the care of the Great Artificer.... | |
| James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 páginas
...In all this there is abundant evidence of wise contrivance. The blood, in going out from the heart, is continually passing from wide tubes into those...passes from narrow vessels into wider ; consequently, it presses the sides of the arteries with greater force than it presses the coats of the veins. To... | |
| James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 páginas
...those which are narrower j in coming back, it passes from narrow vessels into wider ; consequently presses the sides of the arteries with greater force...stronger materials than the veins. This is one difference between the two ; there is another still more strikingly illustrative of the care of the Great Artificer.... | |
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