Literary notes about Anal (AI summary)
The term "anal" appears in literature with a remarkable range of applications, from precise anatomical descriptions to metaphorical and psychoanalytic contexts. In scientific and technical texts, it often denotes specific structures such as fins, orifices, and other features in both aquatic life and anatomical studies—for instance, noting the placement and composition of anal fins ([1], [2], [3]), detailing the structure of anal tubercles and cirri ([4], [5]), or describing the terminal processes of organs and excretory systems ([6], [7], [8]). In more abstract or historical writings, the word is employed to evoke mythic or symbolic imagery, as seen in poetic retellings connected with sacred trees ([9], [10]). Meanwhile, psychoanalytical literature uses "anal" to refer to formative experiences and unconscious impulses, thus broadening its significance beyond the merely anatomical ([11], [12]).
- In all the species there is one dorsal and one anal fin, separate from the caudal.
— from A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 2 (of 2) by David Starr Jordan - First dorsal has nine spines; second dorsal has one spine and twelve soft rays; anal fin, three spines, nine soft rays.
— from Fishing with the Fly Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of Standard Flies - The fin-rays are as follows: Branchial or gill-rays 20; Dorsal 18; Pectoral 16; Ventral 11; Anal 17; Caudal 24; according to my best computation.
— from The Game Fish, of the Northern States and British Provinces With an account of the salmon and sea-trout fishing of Canada and New Brunswick, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc., etc. by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt - Anal cirri present; with or without short lateral bristles Genus * Epiclintes Anal cirri absent; no bristles Genus Uroleptus 5.
— from Marine Protozoa from Woods HoleBulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins - The anal tubercles have not terminal setæ; anal ring inconspicuous.
— from An Account of the Insects Noxious to Agriculture and Plants in New ZealandThe Scale Insects (Coccididae) by William Miles Maskell - The anal membrane soon breaks through and the rectum opens to the exterior by the way of the anus.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey - Rarely does an infant escape repeated attacks of inflammation of the integument of the anus and the mucous membrane of the anal canal.
— from Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison - Hence the external opening of the uro-genital sinus is the first to appear, to be followed by the anal perforation.
— from The Anatomy of the Human Peritoneum and Abdominal CavityConsidered from the Standpoint of Development and Comparative Anatomy by George S. (George Sumner) Huntington - Balám Atibalám api , ‘Balá and Atibilá,’ instead of Manu and Analá.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - From Analá all trees that hang Their fair fruit-laden branches sprang.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - The sadistico-anal organization is the step antecedent to the phase of genital primacy.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The oral impulse becomes auto-erotic , just as the anal and other erogenous impulses are from the very beginning.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
