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descendens
[disen′dənz]
1 the descending branch of the hypoglossal nerve.
2 the cervicalis nerve formed by branches of the second and third cervical nerves.


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lxi: "He not only wrote about universal things, but he also adapted doctrine, coming down ot the particulars, to our very way of living, to the basic practice of the specifics of human life" ("Non enim de universalibus tantum rebus scripsit; verum etiam ad particularia quaeque descendens, ad hunc nostrum vivendi usum et ad singularem quamdam humanae vitae operationem, doctrinam accommodavit").
Towards the end of his Babel explication, he actually says that God's division of languages was not a punishment but a benefit: Ascendente autem superbia prauorum quasi culmine turris nefandae ad caelum, ae quum est ut conditor caeli descendens destruat unanima coeptamalignorum, et hoc eis primum beneficii conferat, ne ualentes implere manus eorum quod coeperant, grauius in aeternum damnentur.
This dynamic model of the GI tract consists of five compartments representing the stomach, small intestine, and colon ascendens, transversum, and descendens (Figure 1).
 
 
 
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