"Scapular" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... diadema, LATR., A. manicatum, LATR., A. cingulatum, LATR., A. scapulare, LATR. None of them creates the refuge in which the cotton goods are manufactured. Like the Osmiae and the Leaf-cutters, they are homeless vagrants, adopting, each to her own taste, such shelter as the work of others affords. The Scapular Anthidium is loyal to the dry bramble, deprived of its pith and turned into a hollow tube by the industry of various mining Bees, among which figure, in the front rank, the Ceratinae, dwarf rivals of the Xylocopa, ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre
... -(black)-. b.v., brachial (from fore limb). e.j., external jugular. h.v., hepatic vein. i.j., internal jugular. [in.v., innominate vein.] l.v.c.s., left vena cava superior. p.v., cutaneous vein. [s.cl.v., sub-clavian vein] s.s.r., sub-scapular vein. v.c.i., ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... Troyes a Carmelite Convent, of the reform of St. Teresa. Every one knows that the Carmelites are in a special manner devoted to Mary, under the title of "Our Lady of Mt. Carmel," and that their congregation is the origin and centre of the Confraternities of the Scapular. There is not a community of women in the Church whose discipline and manner of life is so austere, if we except the "Poor Clares." During all seasons of the year they dress in a heavy coarse habit, wear sandals on their feet, never make use of linen, are seldom seen in the parlor, sleep ...
— The Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois • Anon.
... stomach, violent efforts to vomit occurring at irregular intervals; abdomen tense and tympanitic; violent intermittent pain along the course of the intestines; constipation; sensation of fatigue and lassitude in the lumbar region and in the extremities; dragging pains in the inter-scapular region; extinction of the voice; urine red and scanty; the face animated and bearing no marks of profound suffering; agitation, and ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various
... I, the brachial plexus of nerves, which lie external to and above the vessel; H, the external jugular vein, which sometimes, in conjunction with a plexus of veins coming from behind the trapezius muscle, entirely conceals the artery; M, the posterior scapular artery, a branch of the subclavian, given off from the vessel after it has passed from behind the scalenus muscle; O, numerous lymphatic glands; P, superficial descending branches of the cervical plexus of nerves; ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise
... Two nuns were at hand to pin it into the right folds while a silver ring was being blessed in the same manner as the veil. This was placed on the ring-finger of the left hand as a "symbol of the intimate union and espousal with Christ" signified by her renunciation of the world. The scapular of white serge, similarly blessed, was then laid upon her shoulders as a type of the "yoke of obedience and sacrifice;" and lastly, the black cloak, signifying charity, covering and enveloping the whole person. Then in a loud, firm voice, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various |
