SUBJECT INDEX 



573 



Condensation in surface layer, 73, 1U5, 134, 



185, 213 

 Cones (and rods), 285, 289 

 Constant, dieiectrie, 59, 60 



gas, 37 



ionisation, (i2 

 Contraction, isometric, 1()9 



isotonic, 170 

 Cooking, 113 

 Copper ferrocyanide membranes, 130, 511. 



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 Cornea, 276, 278, 279, 280, 284 

 Corresponding states, law of, 74 

 Corti, organ of, 257 

 Crenation of corpuscles, 319 

 Crooke's tube, 156 

 Crystalloids, 72, 73 

 Current of action, 153, 179 



demarcation, 152, 179, 231 



electrotonic, 229 



polarisation, 154, 228 

 Curvature of refractive media of eye, 279 



uf ventricular walls, 374 



Dalton's law of partial pressures, 38, 354, 



355 

 Dark ground illumination, 80, 52S 

 Dead space, 345 

 Decompression, 356 



Decrement of the nervous impulse, 226 

 Degeneration, fatty, 211, 493 

 Deglutition, 415 



apncea, 416 

 Degraded energy, 5, 8, 494 

 Demarcation current, 152, 179, 231 

 Dendrites, 221 

 Depolarisation, law of, 479 

 Dermatoptic functions, 212 

 Destruction of enzymes, 118, 119 

 Dialysis, 73, 87, 527 

 Diaphragm, 392 



Dielectric constant, 59, 60, 229, 537 

 DifEusiometer, 38, 510 

 Diffusion cause of, 85 



coefficients, 348 



electrical, 86, 529 



field of force of, 482 



of colloids, 85, 529 



of crystalloids, 85, 195, 52!J 



of gases, 38, 348, 510 



through membranes, 38, 39 

 Dioptre, 274 



Dioptric system of eye, 278 

 Diphasic electrical response, 180, 383 

 Dispersion, 73 — ^75 

 Displacement theory of hearing, 262 

 Dissociation of oxyhaemoglobin, 325 el seq. 



of water, 63 



temperature coefficient of, 64, 69 



theory of solution, 42 

 Distance receptors, 249, 272 

 Diuresis, definition of, 195 



and oxygen consumption, 197 

 Diuretics, model to imitate action of, ol'J 

 Donnan equilibrium, 143, 144 



Ear, 249 et .seq. 

 Ecto-enyzmes, 121 



Effective area of surface of erythrocytes, 321 



lungs, 346 

 solvent, 71, 72 

 Efficiency, definition of, 32, 495 



factors influencing, 499 



gross, 495 



net, 495, 497 



of an engine, 31, 32, 496 



of animal as a machine, 32, 497 



of chlorophyll, 21 



of clothing, 453 



of heart, 371 



of isolated muscle, 169, 178, 501 



of lung mechanism, 399, 4(10 



of organism as a whole, 497, 498 



of secretory glands, 187 



of tympanic membrane, 252 



thermal, 32 

 Elasticity, 207 



of arteries, 366 



of lungs, 392, 398 



of rubber, 177, 208 



of tissues, 207 

 Elastin, 210 

 Electric endosmose, 142, 531 



phenomena of cell, 152 

 of muscle, 179 

 of nerve, 225 

 of retina, 287 

 of secretion, 186 

 Electrical conductivity, 57, 149, 487, 522 

 Electrocardiogram, 385 



analysis of, 387 

 Electrodes, non-polarisable, 563 

 Electrometer, capillary, 50, 153, 180, 382, 

 520 



leads, 384 



string, 385 

 Electron theory, 59 



Electrostatic attraction of ions, 59, 229 

 Electrotonic currents, 230 

 Emulsifying agents, 102, 106 et seq. 

 Emulsoids, 74, 191 



protective action of, 93, 535 

 Endo-enzymes, 121, 493 

 Endosmosis, 40. 108, 317, 511 



electrical, 142, 534 

 Endotheliocytes, 191 

 Endothelium, 211, 347 

 Endothermic reactions, 18, 111 

 Energetics of growth, 476 



of karyokinesis, 481 

 Energy absorbed by chlorophyll, 18 



available, 7, 9 



bound, 7, 8 



chemical, receptors for, 237, 242, 244 



conservation of, 4 



consumption in ])honation, 411 

 of by glands, 183, 184 

 by kidneys, 198 

 by muscle, 172 

 by nerve, 228 

 by organism. 477 

 by respiratory muscles, 400 



