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INDEX 



Nociceptive, 795, 804 



impulses, 832 



reflex, 825 

 Noeud vital, 327 

 Nonelectrolytes, 16 

 Nonthreshold substances, 512 

 Normal acid, 22 

 Normoblasts, 93 

 Nuclease, 638 

 Nucleic acid, 637, 689 

 Nuclein ferments, 90 

 Nucleins, 637 

 Nucleoside, 638 

 Nucleotide, 638 

 Nystagmus, 871, 875 



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Obesity, Banting cure for, 571 



Oleic acid, 868 



Olein, 868 



Opsonins, 70 



Organs, loss of weight during starvation, 



568 



perfusion of, 618 

 Ornithine, 616, 631 

 Ornithuric acid, 631 

 Orthopnea, 313, 318 



Oscillatory method of blood pressure, 130 

 Osmometer, 5, 230 

 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, 141 

 Ovalbumin, as food, 577 

 Ovovitellin, as food, 577 

 Oxidases, 82 



Oxidation of blood, 387 

 Oxybutyric acid, 616, 683, 709 

 Oxygen : 



coefficient of oxidation, 393 

 determination of, 562 

 estimation in blood, 390 

 requirements of tissues, 393 

 tension in alveolar air, 340, 344 

 tension in arterial blood, 337 

 transportation by blood, 379 

 volume percentage in blood, 390 

 Oxygen insufficiency, and periodic breath- 

 ing, 373 



effect of, on respiration, 350, 359 

 Oxygen supply of heart, 164 

 Oxyproteic acid, 629 



Pacchionian body, 249 

 Pain: 



sensation of, 832 



Pain, sensation of Coiit'd 

 transmission in eorji, 830 



sense, 795 

 Palatability, 593 

 Palmitic acid, 686, 707 

 Pancreas : 



hormone control of, 420 



histologic changes of, 429 



oxygen requirements, 396 



nervous control of, 427 



sugar metabolism and, 678 

 Pancreatic diabetes, 678 

 Pancreatic digestion, 489 

 Pancreatic juice, 441 



and fat digestion, 690 



secretion of, 420, 426 

 Pancreatin, 490 

 Parasympathetic system, 882 

 Paroxysmal tachycardia, 269, 278 

 Partial dissociation, 271 

 Partial pressure of gases, 336 

 Pathways, sensory, in spinal cord, 830 

 Pelvic ganglionic group, 878 

 Pentose, 664 

 Pepsin, action of, 485 



products of, 486 

 Pepsinogen, 485 

 Peptides, 601 

 Peptone, 105, 486 

 Perception, 861 

 Perfusion, of kidney, 631 



of liver, 618 



Perfusion fluid, of heart, 165 

 Perfusion of heart, 161 

 Periodic breathing, causes of, 372 



types of, 371 



Peripheral resistance, 134, 229 

 Peristalsis : 



in esophagus, 446 



in large intestine, 468 



in small intestine, 465 



in stomach, 453, 456 

 Peristaltic rush, 466, 470 

 Peristaltic wave, 465 



Pernicious anemia, energy output in, 542 

 Peroxidases, 82 

 PH, 27 



Phagocytes, 97 

 Phenaceturic acid, 710 

 Phenol, 501 

 Phenolacetie acid, 502 

 Phenolphthalein, 482, 525 

 Phenylacetic acid, 631, 710 

 Phenylalanine, 604 

 Phenyl group, 604 

 Phlorhizin, 664, 665 

 Phosphates, excretion of, 47 

 Phosphate solutions for H-ion, 34 

 Phosphates of urine, 532 

 Phospholipins, 689 



in bile, 498 

 Phrenic center, 328 

 Physicoehemical basis, 1 



