978 



INDEX 



Deamidization, deaminization, 535 



Deaminizing enzyme, 671 



Decerebrate rigidity, 925 



Decolorization of liquids by charcoal, 67 



Decompensation of heart, 220 



Decompression of caisson workers, 424 



Defecation, 504 



Defects of branches of A-V bundle, 284 



Defibrinated blood, 102 



Degeneration of nerve fibers, 846 



Degeneration, successive, 849 



Deglutition, 479 



Delayed conduction, 282, 291 



Delirium cordis, 196 



Denervated iris, 784 



Dendrites, 831 



Depression of freezing point, 10 



of urine, 557 



Depressor nerve, 243, 244, 245 

 Depressor substances, 253, 415 

 Dessert, physiological value of, 472 

 Detoxication compounds, 662 

 Detoxication process, 535 

 Dextrins, 525, 689 

 Dextrose (see Glucose) 

 Diabetes : 



acidosis in, 715 



and the ductless glands, 710 



assimilation limits in, 685 



blood examination in, 691 * 



blood fat in, 726 



center, diabetic, 704 



early diagnoses of, 685, 692 



energy output in, 578 



experimental, 704 



fat metabolism in, 715 



insipidus, 815 



ketosis, 715 



pancreatic, 712 



nervous, in man, 706 



permanent, 707 



phlorhizin, 697 



postprandial hyperglycemia, 691 



renal, 693 



starvation treatment in, 716 



treatment of, 623, 686 

 Diabetic acidosis, 715 

 Diabetic center, 704 

 Diabetic gangrene, 300 

 Dialuric acid, 678 

 Dialysate, 53 

 Dialysis, 12 



method, colloids, 52 

 Diaphragm, action of, 337, 338 



physiology of, 341 

 Diastasis, 219 



Diastolic filling of heart, 153, 217 

 Diastolic pressure, 129, 133 



measurement of, in man, 129 

 Dicrotic notch, 203 



wave, 203 

 Diet at different ages, 627 



of different communities, 626 



Dietetics, 625 



Differential manometer, 394 

 Diffusion, 12 



Digestibility of foods, 630 

 Digestion, by pancreatic juice, 523 

 in intestine, 523 

 in stomach, 515 

 mechanism of, 478 

 Digestive glands: 

 control of, 

 hormone, 460 

 nervous, 458 



general physiology of, 453 

 microscopic changes during activity, 



423 



Disaccharides, 689 

 Dispersion medium, colloids, 55 

 Dispersoid, colloids, 55 

 Dissociation, 16, 17 

 Dissociation constant, 19, 401 

 Dissociation curve : 

 of blood, 396 

 of hemoglobin, 397 



influence of salts on, 398 

 influence of H-ion concentration 



on, 339 



influence of temperature on, 399 

 Dissociation of sensation, 868 

 Dissociation hypothesis, applications of, 



21 



Dissociation, rate of, 399 

 Distance receptors, relation to cerebrum 



952 

 Diuresis, 552 



and pituitrin, 811 

 Diuretics, 552 

 Diver's palsy, 420 

 Douglas method, 489 

 Dropped beat, 282, 291 

 Du Bois formula, 576 

 Ductless glands, 766 

 in diabetes, 710 

 Dudgeon's sphygmograph, 201 

 Dyspnea, 330, 366 

 Dystrophia adiposo-gonitalis, 818 



B 



Earth-worm, nervous system of, 830 



Eck fistula, 651 



Eclampsia, 654 



Edema, 63, 120 



Edestin and growth, 611 



Effectors, 829 



independent, 828 

 Efferent pathways: 



in brain and cord, 888 



to viscera, 893 

 Effort syndrome, 441, 442 

 Einthoven's triangle, 271, 272 

 El.istin, digestion of, 520 

 Electric conductivity, 16 

 Electric currents, development of, 



