Meanings of prolongation (prolongations) in English

Many of the Aegean islands, or chains of islands, are actually prolongations of promontories of the mainland.

We here clearly see that the valve and collar are infolded prolongations of the walls of the bladder.

These prolongations of the bladder may be conveniently called the antennae, for the whole bladder (see fig.

We distinguish in the wood of the cactus the medullary prolongations, as M. Desfontaines has already observed.).

The most precise of her sayings seemed always to me to have enigmatical prolongations vanishing somewhere beyond my reach.

They had obtained from the weakness of the government repeated prolongations of the period fixed for their withdrawal into Ireland.

Still we descended, and soon saw back in the deep prolongations of the tunnel the shining walls of this phosphorescent cave.

This helmet consists of two membraneous prolongations of the skin, which project on either side from its broad and flattened head.

This tissue is called nerve, and is made up of cells and, broadly speaking, prolongations of cells which are called nerve-fibres.

At this point each terminates in several large villous prolongations, which extend into the horny tubes at the circumference of the sole.

The stream of time can be remounted only verbally, or verified indirectly by the present prolongations or effects of what the past harbored.

This bounty, which, like most others, was granted only for a limited time, was continued by several prolongations, but was reduced to 4d.

These cells have a small cell body with 2 to 5 thin and extremely long cytoplasmic prolongations named telopodes.

And since our habits are but the prolongations of our instincts, the latter also would be included within the purview of the same generalization.

The headlands were prolongations of the island proper, and came so closely together that only one ship at a time might pass between them.

These cells have prolongations, or branches, by which they communicate with one another and with the superficial layer of cells in the true skin beneath.