752 INDEX 



Muscular contraction, latent period Nerve fibers, 65, 66, 74 



of, 479, 526 effect of battery current o 



metabolism during, 494 501, 503 



preparation for, 476 fatigue of, 500 



record of, 473 functions of, 499 



recording, 477 medullated, 66 



refractory phase of, 495 non-medullated, 67 



response to stimuli in volun- impulses, 499 



tary and involuntary, 466 cellulifugal, 538 



simple, 478, 525 cellulipetal, 538 



single twitch, 478 character of, 499 



summation of contractions, rate of, 533 



490 specific energy of, 538 



tetanic, 489, 530 transmission through 



voluntary, 489 neurone, 538 



co-ordination, 490, 664 velocity of, 500 



energy, 484 stimuli, 472, 499, 523 



tissue, 58 terminations, 74 



Muscularis mucosae, 270 tissue, 65 



Musculi papillares, 168 trunks, 69 



pectinati, 164 Nerves, cardiac, 255 



Mydriasis, 611 cranial, 609 



Myelin sheath, 66 functions of, 610 



Myelocyte, 106, 131 depressor, 237 



Myeloplaxes, 42 effect of currents on human, 50 



Myogram, 478 503 



Myograph, pendulum, 478, 527 experiments on, 522 



Myohematin, 471 irritability of, 523 



Myopia, 685 spinal, 549 



Myosin, 471 vasomotor, 232, 233, 238 



ferment, 470 Nervous system, 534 



Myosinogen, 471, 495 functions of, 534 



Myxedema, 454 influence on secretion, 32 



423 



NASAL region, smell, 644 sympathetic, 624 



Near-point, 680, 707 tissues, 65, 67 



Nephrolytic sera, 146 axones of, 65, 538 



Nerve cells, 72, 534 dendrites of, 65, 538 



arrangement of, in spinal ganglia of, 540 



cord, 543 neuroglia of, 65, 78 



body, 72 Pacinian corpuscles, 75 



characteristic of individual, Neuraxone, 65 



535 Neurilemma, 66 



functions of, 534, 535 Neuroglia, 65, 78 



neurone theory, 535 Neurone, 65, 534 



nutritive influence of, 537 theory, 535 



transmission of impulses types of, 539 



through, 538 varieties, 539 



centers, 540 Neutrophile, 116, 131 



functions of, 541 Ninth nerve, 618 



collaterals, 69 Nitrogen in proteins, 106 



end-brushes, 70 Nitrogenous bodies, 79 



