"Viscidity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... belongs to the cinchona family, and contains tonic properties. The Peruvian bark gatherers adulterate the true cinchona bark with this, but it may be detected by its white inner surface, its less powerful bitter taste, and a viscidity not possessed ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... are present in the saliva; one, termed ptyalin, imparts to the saliva its viscidity, and it obtained from the secretions of the parotid, submaxillary and sublingual glands; another, which is not glutinous, is distinguished by the property of coagulating when subjected to heat. The saliva is composed of four elementary secretions, derived ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire-gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm. It is a nine-inch drop at least. When this is done, the mother makes off, knowing for a certainty that her offspring will shift for themselves. If they fall on the meat, ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre
... semi-instructed minds; and is mainly committed in attempting to explain complicated phenomena by a simpler theory than their nature admits of. As when one school of physicians sought for the universal principle of all disease in "lentor and morbid viscidity of the blood," and imputing most bodily derangements to mechanical obstructions, thought to cure them by mechanical remedies;(257) while another, the chemical school, "acknowledged no source of disease but the presence of some hostile acid ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... not rejected any by design, merely because they were unnecessary or exuberant; but have received those which by different writers have been differently formed, as viscid, and viscidity, ...
— Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language • Samuel Johnson |
