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INDEX 



Peristalsis, reversed, 350 



Peri vascular lymphatic sheaths, 154 



Perspiration, 395 



Pfliiger's law of contractions, 472 



Phagocytes, 134 



Phagocytosis, 134 



Phakoscope of Helmholtz, 674 



Phenomena of life, i 



Phenomenon of treppe, 497 



Phosphates, 94 



tests for, 90 



Phosphoric acid in urine, 384 

 Phosphorus in foods, 420 

 Phrenic nerve, influence on respira- 

 tion, 289 

 Physiological material, source of, 1 5 



utilization of, 15 

 Physiology, i 

 Pigment cells, 32 

 Pigments, 90 



bile, 360 



Pituitary body, 431 

 Placenta, 694 



Plants differentiated from animals, 10 

 Plasma, 101, 115 



chemistry of, 139 



composition of, 115 



percentage of, in blood, 135 



reaction of, 136 

 Plasmosomes, 18 

 Plethysmogram, 241 

 Pleurae, 248 

 Pneumogastric nerve, 558, and see 



Vagus 



Pneumograph, 258 

 Pons Varolii, 543 

 Postdicrotic wave, 207 

 Posterior longitudinal bundle, 544 



marginal zone, 516 



pyramids, 534 



roots of spinal nerves, 518, 523 

 Potassium salts in the body, 94 

 Poultry, composition of, 299 

 Precipitins, 129 

 Predicrotic wave, 207 

 Presbyopia, 651 

 Pressor nerves, 216 

 Pressure, endocardiac, 162 

 Prickle cells, 27 

 Pronucleus, female, 692 



male, 692 



Prophase, 19 

 Prostate gland, 682 

 Protamin, 84, 89 

 Proteids, 79 



absorption of, from intestines, 365 



action of trypsin on, 336 



as fat formers, 410 



as glycogen formers, 410 



circulating, 409 



coagulated, 83, 97 



color reactions of, 96 



compound, 81, 84 



classes of, 80 



decomposition products, 87 



digestion of, 325 



floating, 409 



metabolism of, 408, 409 



morphotic, 409 



nitrogen in, 88 



precipitations, 96 



properties of, 79" 



reactions of, 95 



simple, 80, 8 1 



sulphur in, 89 



tissue, 409 



Proteolytic ferments, 303 

 Proteoses, 84, 325 

 Prothrombin, 106 

 Protoplasm, i, 2 



chemistry of, 3 



definition of, 2 



effect of stimuli on, 5 



growth of, 7 



irritability of, 5 



movement of, 3 



physiological characteristics of, 3 



properties of, 2 



reproduction of, 7 



structure of, 8 

 Pseudo-nucleoproteids, 84 

 Ptosis, 550 

 Ptyalin, 303, 310 



action of, 303, 311, 354 

 Pulse, 2t>4 



arterial, 237 



dicrotic, 208 



variations in rate of, 185 



-wave, rate of propagation of, 237 

 Pulvinar, 547 

 Pupil, 632 



contraction of, 647 



