 | Richard Owen - 1832 - 140 pagina’s
...in the peritoneum ; so that the latter membrane is continuous with the lining membrane of the vein. Thus the blood may pass into the general abdominal...be reciprocally received or absorbed into the vein. I counted as many as fifteen of these apertures ; they were largest and most numerous at the commencement... | |
 | 1833 - 624 pagina’s
...the peritoneum, so that the latter membrane is continuous with the lining membrane of the vein ; and thus the blood may pass into the general abdominal...be reciprocally received or absorbed into the vein. That great anatomist whom science has recently lost, Baron Cuvier, first detected a similar mechanism... | |
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Owen discovered about fifteen round apertures in the membrane of the vein, and in the corresponding part of the peritoneum, so that -the latter membrane is continuous with the lining membrane of the vein ; and thus the blood may pass into the general... 