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1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. ii. f. 12^v I call an instrumentall parte, whych is not simple but compounded of the similar, as the head, the eye, the hand, the arme, and such like.

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 4 An vlcer in the similar organick or instrumentall part, deuiding also the differences of vlcers in the similar parte after this sorte. viz. Ulcers in the veines, vlcers in the arteries, vlcers in y^e skinne, and vlcers in the muscles.

1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. vii. sig. A4^v Sicknesse or maladie is triple, similare, instrumentall, and common: the first hurts the action of the part similare.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 123 Which may be compared..to the Similar parts of mans Body.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 32 The same kind of Nourishment taken in by Animals, is turned into Blood, Milk, Flesh, Bones, Nerves, and all the other Similar Parts.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Similar, or simple Parts, by Anatomists are called such as are throughout of the same nature and texture, as all the Parts of a Bone are Bony, &c.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Disease Diseases of the Solids, he [sc. Boerhaave] considers, either as of the simple, and Similar Parts; Or of the Organical.

1943 M. J. Hughes Women Healers in Medieval Life & Lit. iv. 70 Those [diseases] in similar members arose from the qualities or compounds of them.

1978 L. J. Rather Genesis of Cancer ii. 47 As for the fine structure of the organs, the absence of hard data at the microscopic level did not prevent Greek anatomists from devising a classification of similar parts in which a hypothetical fiber was the ultimate structural unit of living substance.

2000 D. Des Chene Life's Form x. 196 Similar parts were further classified by function. Some serve to give consistency to the body, or to temper or nourish it, as do the four humours.