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Antanaclasic, which means that it keeps using the same word in different senses.
Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary
Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
Therefore, what has a (positive) existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for (actual) usefulness.
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
The wheel ... is an extension of the foot.
The book ... is an extension of the eye ...
Clothing, an extension of the skin ...
Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.
The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.
What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence.
Operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary;
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iguana 25. navigable 26. forage
I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
should result in a guileless Wasp artificer mouthing statements prepared
I am my family's appendix, it's unnecessary appendage. - Aaliya
significance could be found in a
Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.
Asexuality, auditions, and Ashlinn. The world was giving me reason to worship the A section of my dictionary.
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
Eccentricities of genius.
My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value
I ate one anchovy, and that is why I did not eat two anchovies.
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.
As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly "inert" letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.
A compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...
A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.
Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
thereafter, the selfsame
Disembodied limbs
Omissions are not accidents.
Interregnum - between
Hello slash query is all well? parenthesis enquiry after suitability of timing slash insinuations of warmness sixty percent insinuations of belief that interlocutor has topic to be discussed forty percent blah blah." I raised an eyebrow. "It was pointless.
Neatly at its foot, a gauze. I hear her gargling in the bathroom. My hands and feet are blue from the cold and I cannot see through the window for the frost and icicles. When Ana Iris starts
I am not an ornithologist - I am a bird.
Domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other
B. A." Here you can infer B, no matter which
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I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.
People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.
There is no normal. There is only undiagnosed.
When I made some observation about linguistic affinity and heredity and Freud - so obvious, I worried that I sounded like a philistine - Ana gave a startled, gargled laugh. Her already enormous eyes grew even wider. And I was immediately engulfed in a warm, prickly compunction.
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
The investigations thereon resultant have appeared in medical and dental journals for the past two decades. The present work is chiefly based on these researches.
...the bioidentical cortex chip that will be implanted subcutaneously on the inside of your forearm. It is a proprietary biocircuit developed in our labs specifically for this purpose, and it is unlike any other in the world.
A progeny of learning.
We argued for weeks about the existence and then the location of a particular semicolon,
Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
In this Postscript I distinguish references back to the revised text of this book by placing these in italics thus (262), from references to the works of other authors under discussion, which are thus (p. 162). account
Ooh-kaay. Moving on from odd reaction to completely innocent question.
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Goodness gracious me,' exclaimed Alexia, 'what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and some opera glasses. What on earth are they called, binocticals, spectoculars?
Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!
If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.
But the feeling of a limb as a sensory and motor part of oneself seems to be innate, built-in, hardwired - and this supposition is supported by the fact that people born without limbs may nonetheless have vivid phantoms in their place.4
Gnan is that which does not let kashays arise when one's pocket is picked.
This whole city is most certainly a pitiful corpse, while the neighborhood outside the walls of this bar has the distinction of being the withering heart of the deceased. And I am a devoted student of its anatomy - a pathologist, after a fashion, with an eye for necroses that others overlook.
Useless as a pulled tooth.
Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
Urgent equals ephemeral, and ephemeral equals unimportant.
But as of late, I have been consumed with the significant task of revising the latest edition of my Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, while alternately putting the finishing touches on my four volumes of The Whole Art of Detection. The latter is a rather tedious, labyrinthine undertaking ...
In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut.
[Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum
Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]
If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which both are united, then the expression: gives the series for the progeny of plants hybrid in a pair of differing traits.
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.
Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence.
diphthongs. Avril
If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.
Ephemeral It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.
emergent relatedness assumes that the infant from the moment of birth is deeply social in the sense of being designed to engage in and find uniquely salient interactions with other humans.
Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.
Mrs. Grant glanced at her
husband. "She's always so fidgety.
Like a canary." She narrowed her
eyes at me. "I hate canaries."
I squeaked again. But not like a
canary. I hoped.
It [humor] inhabits the marginal.
Of Drs. Clowney, Packer, Sproul, Norman L. Geisler, Harold W. Hoehner, Donald E. Hoke, Roger R. Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard around the clock to prepare a statement that might receive the approval of a great majority of the participants. Very special attention
It's a four-letter word for a part of the human anatomy but it's not m-i-n-d.
significant component of the federal law of tax-exempt organizations is the body of tax law concerning the conduct and taxation of unrelated trade
I'm thinking there isn't much normally in your normally.
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.
A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential
The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands.
B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
readers' attention, such as one
The five branches are immortalized in every medical student's memory as Two Zombies Buggered My Cat (Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular and Cervical). Remembering
1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body
To your care and recommendation am I indebted for having replaced a half-blind mathematician with a mathematician with both eyes, which will especially please the anatomical members of my Academy.
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
Anesthetized by youth, I missed it.
Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible.
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which ... can be dispensed with.
I think therefore I am not sure.
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences. My