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F. He*. Wcuriaues, and Dimas Bofauez, Phyfician to the The Plexus Mefcntericus Magnus, or great Mefcntenc
Vice-Roy of Goa, were Witneffes. The Phyfician, who Plexus, is form'd out of the concurrent Branches of feveral
examined them with a great deal of Care, and made other Plexus's, and fends its nervous Fibres throu«h the
Diffcctitins thereof, afferts, that all the Parts, both inter- whole Mefentcry along with the Meferaic Veffels, which
nal and external, were found perfectly conformable to with vatious Circumligations, they accompany to the In-
thofcofMen. Seethe Hift.de la Ompagneie Jefus, P. II. telline,. SeePr-Exus.
T. IV. N°. 2 -fi. where the Relation is given at length. MESN, or ME ASNE, a Term in Law fignifyins him
We have another Relation well attcffed of a Merman, who is Lord of a Manor, and fo hath Tenants holding of
near the great Rod call'd Diamond, on the Coaft of Mar- him ; yet he himfelf holds of a fupcrior Lord. See
tinico. The Perfons who faw it, gave in a precife De- Lord.
fcription of it before a Notary. They affirmed that they Mesn is alfo a Writ, which lieth where there is
faw it wipe its Hand over its Face, and even heard it Lord Me/a and Tenant. ; and the Tenant is dillraincd for
blow it, iNofe. Services due from the iWe/,, to the fupericr Lord. The
Another Creature of the fame Species was caught in Word is properly derived from Maifn, minor nam, becaufe
the Baltic m the Year 1531, and fent as a Prefent taSgifmmd his Tenure is derived from another, 'from whom he holds
Kmgof Poland , with whom it liv'd three Days, and was MESOCOLON, in Anatomy.tbatpart of the Melentery
lcen by all the Court. Another very young one was taken continued in the great Guts. See Mesentery
nearRocw de SSmra, asrelated by Damian Gacs. The Mcficohn lies in the midft of the Colon, to which
™ e K'»g»"»*' and the Grand Mafler of the. it is joined. Its lower part ilicks to a parr of the
Urder ot or. James, had anticntly a Suit at Law to deter- Rcfium.
'".f^D g"'y th . efe M( »>ft«s belonged to. MESOLABE, Mesolabium, a Mathematical In-
MESAKA.UM in Anatomy, the fame with Mefente- ftrument invented by the Antients for finding two mean
num. See Mesentery.
Mesar/eum is alfo ufed in a more reflrained Senfe For a Part, or Divifion of the Mefemery ; being that faftned to the thick Guts. See Mesentery.
MESARA1C Veffels, in the general Senfe, are the fame with Mefemeric. See Mesenteric.
In common ufe, Mefarait
Proportionals Mechanically, which they could not come at Geometrically, See Proportional.
It confifts of three Parallelograms moving in a Groove to certain Interftctions. Its Figure is defcribed by £»ro- chius in his Commentary on Archimedes.
MESO LOGARITHM, a Term ufed by Kefler to
m is more frequently applied to fi gn if y the Logarithms of the Co-Sines, and Co-Tang,
- y*™l™£J£l mte ?? ,0 the Artenes of the Mefemery. The former of which my Lord Neper calls Aun-Lmantbtn,
.._J .1 I-**..- 7VJT. -_(. *
MESENTER1, or Mesarje-jm, in Anatomy a fat an d ,he latter Differentiates. membranous Body ; thus call'd, becaufe placed in the middle of the Intcflines, which it connects to one another. See Intestines. .
The Mefemery is almoft of a circular Figure, with a narrow Produaion,to which the end of the Calm, and be- ginning of the ReBum, ate tied.
'Tis about four fingers and a half in Diameter : Its Circumference, being full of Plaits and Foldings, is about
call'd Attificial Sines and Tangents. Co-Sine, Co Tangent, An it Lo-
Thefe are all See Locarithi*
GARITHM,£i?C.
MESO-FLEURII in Anatomy, the Intcrcoltal Mulcles, See Intercostal,
The Word is derived from latnt Medmm, Middle ; and irhtvgr. Lotus, the Side.
Meso-Pleuru is fometimes alfo ufed for the interme-
-t_ T?ll • I 1 rxii * „• . VT7P ' »*.»h&.j ia luiiii-iiiiiia alio uitQ IOT tOC II
three Ells in length. 1 he Intefiines are tied like a Border diate Spaces between the Cafl*, jr Ribs. See Km on this CiKumference of the Mefemery ■ There are three MESSE, or Masse, or Missa, the Office, o/public ln tl S °l, r " e 'r S • alt ^ ed - , See Inte *™es. Prayers made in the Romifi ChtuS, at the Ce ebradon of
The Mefemery itfelf ,s ftrongly tied to the three firft the Eucharift. See Euciiaiust ^lebration ot
Verttbr* of the Loins. It ,s compofed of three Lamm* ; The Romifi Divines define the Uafs, an Oblation made the inner upon which the Glands and Fat lie, and the to God, wherein, by the change of afenfibie Object by VemsandArteriesrun,isitsownproperMembrane;andthe virtueof a divme Initiation, the fovc-, e n Dou, „ If other two which cover each fide of the proper Membrane God over all Things is aci- no' vied ged. This the. efteem comefrom the Peritoneum. Between the two external La- the greateft and mod augul _.n. K y in ufe in th^
n,m„of the Mefemery run the Branches of Arteria Me- Church, as being .he Sacrifice ot the new Law wherein fenteriaca fupenor and inferior, which bring the Blood to the Body and Blood of Jefus Chr„r are offered unm the Interlines ; and the Yen* Meferaic*, which being Bran- Rod. otiered up to
ches of the Pornc, carry the Blood back to the' Liver. Here the large Branches of both Atteties and Veins com- municating with one another, match directly to the Guts ; where, with the Nerves from the Plexus Mefentericus they divide into an infinite Number of fmall Bran- ches, which fpread themfelves extremely finely upon the Coats of the Inteflines. The Yen* LaBet, and Lympha- tic Veffels, tun likewife upon the Mefemery, i n which there are alio feveral Veficular Glands ; the' biggeft of which in the middle of the Mefemc
God.
They are divided about the Queftion, Whether or no it be proper or allowable for the fame Perfon so celebrate iM.i/s (everal times in one day; having rhe Authority of Pope Leo in his Letter to Dwfmrus for the Affirmative Side or the Quellion, and that of feveral of the Councils for the Negative.
hicod, after Daronius, obferves that the Word Mats comes from theHebrew,MifJach, Oblatum ; or from M,Jfa,Mifforum ; becaule in the former Times, the Catechumens and Ex-
which ,n the middle of the Mefemery, is call'd Pancreas communicated were fent out of the Church wh the DeT The Mrrente,^ hns he P „ n ^;„.-:i., jr..:j_j ._„ ._ ^P'"'e and Oolpel , they not being allow'd to affift at
. s -...,,. „ to affift at
the Lonlecration. See Catechumen
Mxage derives it from Mfo, difmfflSng, Others again derive it from the -.Lath,, Mfa, Envoy ; becaufe in the Map, the Prayers of Men on Earth are fent up to Heaven
There are a vaft Variety of Maffes in the Romifi Church ;
s;w^ t r±&' seas ;S5:SSS?=-*
The Mefemery has been ordinarily divided into two Parts, the Mefaraum and Mefocolon. The firft appended to the Imejlma Tenuia ; and the lattet to the Crajfa : But this is a Divifion of no great moment.
The Ufe of the Mefemery, is, firft, to gather the In- teftines into a narrow Compafs, that the Courfe of the
hinder their periftaltic Motion.
■ The Word comes from the Greek moor, middle, and i, vrnor, Interline, Gut ; as being in the middle of the In- teftines.
MESENTERIC or Mesaraic, an Epithet given to two Arteries ar.fing from the defcending Aorta, and pro- ceeding to the Me/emery.
ofe particularly ufed in Mian. 1 he Engl.fi Mafswzs the Form which antiently obtain'd England.
Galilean Mafs is the Rite that formerly obtain'd in the Churches of France.
There
to the upper parr
■ in TTYin-.: „„ c * ■ , . r ... lfJ tl,uc uic " ln ulc t-atm t^nurch in the Lai:
r ^e'Mcfc^r V ±?«? «»?*« P ^eRitesof ,he^, ;B Ch e urch:
cfentery ; and a Lower, or In
Greek Mafsts that rehearfed according to the Greek Rites in the Greek Language, and by Greek Priefts. Latin Mafs e Latin Church in the Latin Tongue and
ferior Myenteric, which diftributes itfe? throve \IZ aS^ff*-^ ^i s „ that f "?g ^ «•».
and Subdeacon.
celebrated with the Affiftance of a Deacon
lerente^^'w'hkh^th'tS ^l^^l th " ^"-^ the Pra y ers are M b ^V yen* Splenica toting fom the Spleen, firm the r e Zr',? rehe f^ W " ° Ut W $»&*• and Performed without ^ An^ifl? alfo reckon a Mefeme'ric ^Nerve which ariS l^™™^' " ^ AmmK ° f an ^ Deacon or Sab -
The Mafs of the Beat*, or our Lady, is that offer'd to God by the Means and thro' the Interceffion of the
part. See Artery.
We have alfo a Mefcnteric Vein,
from the Intercoftal, and fends feveral Branches to the Mefemery. See Nerve.
Mesenteric Plexus, a Plexus, or piece of Net- Work form d by the Branches or Ramifications of the Par Va«, m
Virgin.
The Beati-Mafs is a Mafs rehearfed every day, at which
the
