INDEX 



985 



Nervous impulse: 



conduction of, 836 



rhythm of, 841 

 Nervous diabetes, 704 



in man, 706 

 Nervous system : 



autonomic, 893 



bulbar outflow, 894 

 enteral, 895 

 internuncial fibres, 894 

 oculo-molor, 895 

 sacral outflow, 894 

 thoracico-lumbar outflow, 895 



evolution of, 827 



influence on excretion of urine, 563 



integration of, 945, 951 



metabolism of, 851 



nutrition of, 846, 849 

 Network, nerve, 830 

 Neurogenic hypothesis, of heart, 172 

 Neurons, 830 



association, 834 



effector, 894 



internuncial, 894 

 Neuroid transmission, 828 

 Neurolemma, 848 

 Neutrality, regulation of, 36 

 Nicotine : 



action on vagus, 231 

 Nitrogen : 



action on synapse, 238, 844, 895 



excretion of, premortal rise, 600 



in starvation, 600 



undetermined, urine, 647, 662 

 Nitrogen balance, 605 

 Nitrogenous constituents of urine, 560 

 Nitrogenous equilibrium, 605 

 Nitrogenous metabolites, in starvation, 



602 

 Nociceptives : 



reflex, 966 

 Noeud vital, 344 

 Nonelectrolytes, 16 

 Nonthreshold substances, 546 

 Normal acid, 22 

 Normoblasts, 94 

 Noxious stimuli, 862 

 Nuclease, 671 

 Nucleic acid, 669, 720 

 Nuclein ferments, 91 

 Nucleins, 669 

 Nucleoside, 670 

 Nucleotide, 670 

 Nystagmus, 920 

 Nutrition, 608 



of nervous tissue, 846, 849 



Obesity, Banting cure for, 605 

 Oleic acid, 718 

 Olein, 719 

 Olfactory area, 879 



Oncometer, 235 

 Opsonins, 70 



Optic thalamus, sensory center of, 876 

 Organs, loss of weight during starva- 

 tion, 602 



perfusion of, 652 

 Ornithine, 650, 664 

 Ornithuric acid, 664 

 Orthopnea, 329, 335 



Oscillatory method of blood pressure, 132 

 Osmometer, 5 

 Osmosis, 4 

 Osmotic pressure, 4, 10 



and formation of lymph, 13 

 and hemolysis, 7 

 and plasmolysis, 8 

 measurement by depression of freez- 

 ing point, 11 



in physiologic mechanisms, 13 

 in production of urine by kidneys, 



14 



of transfusates, 142 

 Ovary, 822 



Ovalbumin, as food, 611 

 Ovovitellin, as food, 611 

 Oxidases, 82 

 Oxidation of blood, 400 

 Oxybutyric acid, 650, 715, 740 

 Oxygen : 



coefficient of oxidation, 408 

 coefficient of utilization, 410 

 determination of, 596 

 estimation in blood, 403 

 requirements of tissues, 408 

 tension in alveolar air, 361 

 tension in arterial blood, 354, 356 

 therapeutic value of, 445 

 transportation by blood, 392 

 volume percentage in blood, 403 

 Oxygen insufficiency, (see anoxemia) 

 Oxygen supply of heart, 163, 166 

 Oxyproteic acid, 662 



Pacchionian body, 256 



Pain: 



referred, 858 

 sensation of, 862 



transmission in cord, 868 

 sense, 862 



Palatability, 630 



Palmitic acid, 718, 736 



Pancreas : 



hormone control of, 460 

 histologic changes of, 464 

 oxygen requirements, 396 

 nervous control of, 462 

 sugar metabolism and, 710 



Pancreatic diabetes, 712 



Pancreatic digestion, 523 



