576 



SUBJECT INDEX 



Leduc's diffusion experiment, 482 



osmotic growths, 134, 466, 544 

 Lens of eye, 277 



Leucocytes, 150, 190, 296, 312. 545 

 Levers, 397, 423, 424 

 Liesegang phenomenon, 86, 87, 529 

 Light, absorption of, by chlorophyll, 2(> 

 by colloids, 78 

 by ergosterol, 165 

 by green leaf, 15 



energy of, 14 



polarised, 80, 108, 110, 127, 528 



receptors for, 212, 278, 456 



scattered, 275, 283 

 Liquid crystals, 108, 111, 176 

 Load and efficiency, 178, 499 

 Localisation of sound, 266 

 Locomotion, movements of, 427 

 Lubrication of joints, 218 

 Lungs, area and volume, 346 



mechanism, structure, etc., 390 et seq. 

 Lymph, 362 

 Lyotropic series, 538 



Macula lutea, 277 



Maddox rod, 292 



Magnification, chromatic dift'erences in, 



274. 283 

 Malleus, 250 



Malpighian corpuscles, 192 

 Mannitol, 19 

 Mass action, law of, 68 

 Mastication, 415 



Maximum energy of solar spectrum, 15 

 Mechanical equivalents of heat. 4 

 Mechanics of bone formation, 214, 462 



of locomotion, 427 



of mastication, 415 



of respiration, 392 



of speech, 404, 409 

 Mechanism of ear, 254, 258 



of kidney, 199 



of larynx, 404 

 Meissner's corpuscle, 240 

 Melanoidins, 212 

 Membrane, basilar, 259 



Ileissner's, 256 



tectorial, 263 



tympanic, 250 

 Membranes, 132 el fcq. 



adsorption, 109, 134, 466, 544 



cell, 136 



for dialysis, 87, 88, 527, 557, 559 



lipoid, 135, 318 



permeability of, 136, 137 



polarised, 145 



selective permeability of. 145 



semi -permeable, 40, 136, 511, 544 

 Metabolism, definition of, 2 



effect of temperature on. 449 

 Metabolites, function of. 480 

 Micron, 81 



Micropolarimeter, 109 

 Milk, 111 

 Mimicry of aiULcboid movements, 150, 510 



Mimicry of cell structure, 153 



of karyokinesis, 482 



of kidney action. 549 



of mucoid secretion, 548 



of shell formation. 545 

 Mirror images (optical activity), 130 

 Mitosis, 482 et seq. 

 Model of cell, 153 



of circulation, 556 



of kidney, 549 



of nerve cell to illustrate Miiller's law, 

 223 



of polarimeter, 128 



of receiving and reacting neuron, 224 

 Modulus bulk, 207 



shear, 206 



Young's. 206 

 Monocytes, 191 

 Mountain sickness. 351 

 Mouth, 413 



Mucous membrane, olfactory. 244 

 Miiller's law, 223 

 Murmurs, cardiac, 378, 379 

 Muscse volitantes. 296 

 Muscles, antagonistic and synergic, 253, 



393. 395, 400, 425, 426 

 Musical scale, 406 

 Myelin growths, 109. 110 

 Myopia, 284 



Negative osmosis. 140 



polarisation, 228 



temperature coefficient, 46, 48, 58. 69, 

 174, 177 

 Neuron, 221, 222 



Brownian, movement in, 222 

 Neutrality, definition of, 64 



preservation of, 429 et aeq. 

 Newton's laws of cooling, 442 



of thermodynamics, 1 

 Nicol's prism, 128 

 Nitrogen cycle, 19, 494 

 Normal solutions, 67 

 Nucleus, 149 



and mitosis, 482 



and oxidative changes, 484, 489 



GEdometer, 98 

 Olfactory nerve. 245 

 Obcytin, 488 

 Ophthalmoscopy, 296 

 Optical activity, 126 



due to asymmetric forces, 131 

 measurement of, 129 

 isomers, 131 



and enzyme action. 123 

 resonance. 78 

 Optimal incidence of energy to nerve, 227, 

 234 

 load for muscular efficiency, 499 

 pK for enzyme action, 120, 126, 541, 542 

 rate of work, 500 



temperature for enzyme action, 118, 541 

 Organ of Corti, 257 



