 | Karl Ludwig Willdenow - 1811 - 582 lehte
...the whole arm or four and twenty inches. 11. A fathom, (orgy a), the length of the arms stretched out from the tip of one middle finger to that of the other, or six feet. These definitions will not be repeated in the sequel, but, when necessary, reference will... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 832 lehte
...arm, or four and twenty inches. 1 1 . A fathom or toise (orgya), the length of the arms stretched out from the tip of one middle finger to that of the other, or six feet. For these the following have been substituted by some French botanists :— The millimetre... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 402 lehte
...or four-and-twenty inches. — 11. A fathom or toise (orgya), the length of the arms stretched out from the tip of one middle finger to that of the other, or six feet. For these the following have been substituted by some French botanists : — The millimetre... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1863 - 544 lehte
...the man. The trochanter is the prominent part of the thigh-bone near its upper end at the hip-joint. The total span is the distance from the tip of one...breadth of the torso at the shoulders. The ulna is one of the two bones of the fore-arm; its ends are marked by the elbow and the prominence of the wrist-joint... | |
 | Charles Roberts - 1878 - 192 lehte
...a. Upper Limb. 33. Length of the two arms extended horizontally without forced extension, measured from the tip of one middle finger to that of the other. 34. Length of the arm from the acromion (tip of the shoulder) to the external condyle of the humerus... | |
 | Charles Roberts - 1878 - 190 lehte
...a. Upper Limb. 33. Length of the two arms extended horizontally without forced extension, measured from the tip of one middle finger to that of the other. 34. Length of the arm from the acromion (tip of the shoulder) to the external condyle of the humerus... | |
 | Charles Roberts - 1878 - 258 lehte
...a. Upper Limb. 33. Length of the two arms extended horizontally without forced extension, measured from the tip of one middle finger to that of the other. 34. Length of the arm from the acromion (tip of the shoulder) to the external condyle of the humerus... | |
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... sculptures. In reference to the terminology used in the bodily dimensions a few words will be sufficient in explanation. By vertex is to be understood the junction of the principal cranial bones coinciding with the whirl of the hair. The diameter... 