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Excerpt from The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Science, Vol. 3: Based on Mayne's Lexicon <p>A term used by Lobstein to denote the force exerted by the elementary tissues on the organic material or protoplasm around, by which similar tissues are caused to be built up. <p>P., po'lar. (l. Polus, the end of an axis.) A force which is potent at each end only of the axis of a body, or of each of its constituent mole cules or atoms. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.