INDEX 



899 



Physiologic processes depending on ad- 

 sorption, 69 



Pigments, absorption of, 117 

 Piloearpine, action on heart, 226 

 Pilomotor fibers, 880 

 Pitot's tubes, 201 

 Plasma, 99 

 Plasmolysis, 8 

 Platelets, of blood, 97, 106 

 Plethora, 86 



Plethysmograph, 209, 230, 273, 303 

 Pleurisy, 324 



Plexus of Auerbach and Meissner, 466, 796 

 Pneumothorax, 305 

 Poikilocytes, 94 

 Polygraph, 273 

 Polyneuritis, 584 

 Polynuclear cells, 96 

 Polypeptides, 487, 601 

 Polyphosphoric acid, 637 

 Polysaccharides, 489 

 Polysphygmograms, 273 

 Portal vein, bloodflow in, 255 

 Postdicrotic wave, pulse, 203 

 Postprandial hyperglycemia, 659 

 Postcentral convolutions, 850, 854 

 Posterior roots, 787, 836 

 Postsphygmic period, 150 

 Postural reflexes, 826 

 Potassium, microchemical test for, 421 

 Potassium ions, on heart, 167 

 Potential acidity of urine, 524 

 Precentral convolutions, 843, 854 

 Precipitins, 595- 

 Predicrotic wave, pulse, 203 

 Prefrontal region, 854 

 Premature beats, 277 

 Premortal rise, 566 

 Presphygmie period, 149 

 'Pressor impulses, 238, 239, 240 

 Pressure : 



intrapleural, 304 



effect of, in blood pressure, 306 



intrapulmonic, 299 



negative, 305 



osmotic, 10 

 Pressure pulse, 127 

 Principle of Willard Gibbs, 66 

 Proline, 604 



Proprioceptive impulses, 865 

 Proprioceptors, 822 

 Prosecretin, 426 

 Proteases, 89 

 Protein sparers, 571 

 Proteinases, 80 

 Proteins : 



as colloids, 63 



bacterial digestion of, 501 



chemistry of, 597 



metabolism of, 595, 613 

 end products, 613 



minimum requirement, 572, 592 



of blood, 88 



Proteins -Gont 'd. 



relative value of, for growth, 611 



salting out of, 60 

 Proteose, 486 

 Protopathic impulses, 831 

 Protopathic receptors, 790 

 Protothrombin, 103, 106, 111 

 Psychopathology, 862 

 Ptomaines, 502, 629 

 Ptyalin, 491, 656 

 Pulmonary circulation, 253 

 Pulmonary ventilation, 350 

 Pulses, 198 



abnormal, 276 



alternans, 181 



bigeminus, 181 



contour of wave, 200 



length of wave, 199 



palpable, 201 



pressure, 127 



pulse curves, 202 



pulse waves, 189, 200, 203 



rate of transmission, 198 



velocity, 200 



venous, central, 205, 274 



venous, peripheral, 205 

 Purkinje fibers, 184 

 Purine bodies (see Purines) 

 Purines : 



chemistry of, 529, 613, 634 



endogenous, 641, 643 



exogenous, 641 



metabolism of, 637 



in starvation, 569 



synthesis of, 646 

 Putrefaction, intestinal, 501, 530 

 Putrescine, 629 

 Pyloric . canal, 452 

 Pyloric sphincter, control of, 456 

 Pyloric vestibule, 453 

 Pyramidal cell lamina, 854 

 Pyrimidine bases, 636, 637 

 Pyruvic acid, 600, 708 



B 



Runii communicantes, 233 



Eaynaud's disease, bloodflow in, 258 



Eeaction deviation, 871 



Eeaction of urine, 524 



Eeactions depending on adsorption, 66 



Eeactions of body fluids, 35 



Eeceptors, 782, 788 



distance, 785 



epicritic, 790 



external, 788, 822 



internal, 788 



of skin, 790 



projicient, 785, 788 



proprio, 822 



protopathic, 790 



temperature, 791 



touch, 793 



