984 



INDEX 



Manometer : 



blood-gas differential, 39;") 



Hurthle, 128, 147 



mercury, 125 



optical, 147 



spring, 128 



valved mercury, 152 

 Mark-time reflex, 967 

 Mass action, 23 



Mass action and H-ion concentration, 26 

 Mass movements of blood, 208 



measurement of, 296 

 Mass-reflex, 968 

 Mastication, 478 

 Mechanics of respiration, 316 

 Mechanism of urine excretion, 544 

 Megacaryocytes, 104 

 Melting point, fats, 719 

 Mercury manometer, 125 

 Mesencephalico-spinal system, 963 

 Metabolism : 



calculations, 596 



endogenous, 649 



exogenous, 649 



general, 570 



in starvation, 600 



normal, 604 



of carbohydrates, 685 



of central nervous system, 851 



of fats, 718 



of nerve fibres, 856 



of proteins, 632 



of purines, 676 



special, 570 

 Methyl glyoxal, 698 

 Methyl group, 634 

 Methyl purines, 668 

 Methylation, 660 

 Methylglyoxal, 698 

 Mett's method, 521 

 Microcytes, 95 

 Microtonometer, 356 

 Mid-capacity of lungs, 328 

 Milk, clotting of, 521 

 Miniature stomach, 468 

 Minimal air, 317 

 Mononuclear leucocytes, 97 

 Monoplegia, 887 

 Monosaccharides, 689 

 Morphogenetic, 767 

 Morawitz theory, blood clotting, 108 

 Motor areas: 



representation of function in, 886 

 stimulation of, 885 

 Mountain sickness, 378, 415 



acid and ammonia excretion in, 420 

 acid-base equilibrium in, 416 

 adaptation to, 418 

 alveolar CO 2 in, 416 

 blood corpuscles in, 419 



symptoms of, 417 

 Movements, of intestine, 497 



of stomach, 485 



Municipal food statistics, 628 

 Muscarine, action on heart, 232 

 Muscle, cardiac, properties of, 176 



refractory period, 178 



respiration in, 408, 409 



staircase phenomenon (treppe), 177 

 skeletal, 177 



respiration in, 394 

 Muscular exercise, 248, 574 



circulatory changes during, 427 



effect on metabolism, 586 



effect on respiration, 427 



H-ion during, 431, 432 



purines during, 480 



redistribution of blood during, 433 



respiratory changes during, 427 



temperature of blood during, 433 

 Mutual precipitation of colloids, 57 

 Myenteric reflex, 830 

 Myogenic hypothesis of heartbeat, 171 

 Myoneural junction, 845 

 effect of curare on, 845 

 effect of epinephrine on, 845 

 Myxedema, 796 



energy output in, 578 



N 



Narcotics and blood fat, 727 

 Necrosis of liver, 654 

 Negative heart pulse, 154 

 Negative pressure in ventricle, 152 

 Nephelometer, 726 

 Nephrectomy, 655 

 Nephritis, 683, 684 



acidosis in, 715 



urea retention in, 562 

 Nerves : 



degeneration of, 846 



regeneration of, 846 



specific properties of, 859 



vasodilator, 239 



Nerve cell body, function of, 846 

 Nerve fiber: 



conduction in, 837 

 degeneration of, 846 

 direction of conduction in, 837 

 fatigue of, 841 



isolation of conduction in, 837 

 metabolism of, 850 

 regeneration of, 846 

 Nerve net, 830 

 Nervi erigentes, 239, 895 

 Nervous control : 



of gastric secretion, 469 



of ileocolic sphincter, 503 



of intestinal glands, 477 



of intestinal movements, 501 



of pancreas, 462 



of respiration, 344 



of salivary glands, 458 



of stomach movements, 492 

 Nervous conduction, polarity in, 830, 841 



