Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
above the lung on the division of the windpipe, and has a fatty and thick membrane where it is united with the great vein and the aorta. It lies upon the aorta, with its point down the chest, in all animals that have a chest. In all, alike in those that have a chest and in tho...
the spine, on its inner face; the larger more forwards, the smaller behind; the larger more to the right, the smaller, which some call _aorta_ (on account of the tendinous part...
1. Book i. 17.—(_A_) “The heart has three cavities, it liesabove the lung on the division of the windpipe, and has a fatty and thick membrane where it is united with the great vein and the aorta. It lies upon the aorta, with its point d...