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INDEX. 



Ammonium carbamate as precursor 

 of urea, 754 



carbonate as precursor of urea, 

 737 

 Amylolytic enzyme, 662 

 Amylopsin, 708 

 Anacrotic pulse, 474, 475 

 Anaglyph, 347 

 Anelectrotonic currents, 101 

 Anelectrotonus, 83 

 Anisotropous substance in muscle, 19 

 Anode as stimulus to muscle, 82 

 to nerve, 82 



physical, 89 



physiological, 89 

 Anoxemia, 628 

 Anterior commissure, 213 



marginal bundle, spinal cord, 170 



roots of spinal nerves, 77 

 Antidromic impulses in vasodilator 



nerve fibers, 78, 548 

 Antilytic secretion, 677 

 Antiparalytic secretion, 677 

 Antipeptone, 705 

 Antithrombin, 419 

 Antrum pylori of stomach, 639 

 Anus praeternaturalis, 717 

 Apex beat of heart, 482 

 Aphasia, motor, 204 



sensory, 206 

 Apnea, 623 

 Arginase, 756 

 Arginin, 707, 863, 874 

 Argyll Robertson pupil, 302 

 Arterial pressure (see Circulation) 

 Artificial muscle of Engelmann, 69 



respiration, 581 



stimuli of nerve fibers, 80 

 Ascending paths in spinal cord, 161 

 Aspartic acid, 706, 874 

 Asphyxia, effect of, on heart-rate, 



529 

 Aspiratory action of thorax, 587 

 Association areas in brain, 207, 209 



system of fibers in cerebrum, 175 

 Astereognosis, 189 

 Astigmatism, 297 

 Atropin, action of, on heart, 520 

 on iris, 303 



on salivary secretion, 676 

 on sweat secretion, 768 

 Auditory center in cortex, 198 



nerve, course of, in brain, 199 

 effect of section of, 375 



sensations (see Ear) 



stria-, 201 

 Auricle (see Heart) 

 Auriculoventricular muscle bundle, 

 479 

 effect of compressing, 508 

 Auscultation, 486 

 Autolysis, 835 



Autolytic enzymes, 664 

 Automaticity of heart beat, 500 

 Autonomic fibers from brain, 234 



from sacral cord, 236 



from spinal cord, 233 

 nerve fibers, normal stimulation of, 



236 

 nervous system, general relations 



of, 232 

 Axial stream in arteries, 435 



in veins, 435 

 Axon reflexes, 142 



Bacterial action in intestines, 718 

 Balance experiments in nutrition, 



785 

 Balloon ascensions, effect of, 630 

 Banting diet, 800 



Barometric pressures, effect of, 629 

 Bartholin, duct of, 666 

 Basilar membrane, function of, 367 

 Bathmotropic nerve fibers to heart, 



516 

 Bell-Magendie law, 77 

 Bilateral representation in motor 



areas, 186 

 Bile, composition of, 722 



curve of secretion of, 729 



effect of occluding bile ducts, 730 



ejection of, into duodenum, 728 



functions of, summary, 730 



quantity of, 722 



secretion of, 727 

 Bile-acids, composition of, 725 

 Bile-pigments, 400, 724 

 Bile-salts, importance of, in fat 



digestion, 715 

 Bilirubin, 724 

 Biliverdin, 724 

 Binocular perspective, 346, 349 



vision, 338 



horopter in, 343 

 struggle of visual fields in, 344 

 value of, in judgments of dis- 

 tance, 344 

 in judgments of size, 344 

 Births, ratio of male and female, 869 

 Biuret reaction for proteids, 877 

 Bladder, urinary, movements of, 762 

 Blind spot in eye, 308 

 Blood, blood-plates of, physiology 

 of, 407 



circulation of (see Circulation) 



coagulation of, 414 



condition of carbon dioxid in, 604 

 of nitrogen in, 602 



curve of dissociation of oxyhemo- 

 globin, 603 



defibrinated, 382 



gases of, 596 



general properties of, 381 



