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PIGMENT CELLS. 



Pigment cells of retina, 106, 753 



movement of, 781 

 Pineal gland, 336 

 Piotrowski's reaction, 395, 402 

 Piperidine, action of, 335 

 Pituitary body, 336 

 development, 821; 

 effects of removal, 336 

 Placenta, maternal, 816, 817 



foetal, 821 

 Plasma of blood, 82, 406, 41 1 



gases of, 413 

 Plethysmograph, 308 



Schafer's, 260 

 Pleura, 342 



Pleuro-peritoneal cavity, 8n 

 Plexus, terminal, 699 



of Auerbach, 104, 4.47 

 Pneumogastric nerve, 628 

 distribution of, 631 

 functions, 629 

 influence on 

 deglutition, 520 

 gastric digestion, 524 



secretion, 483 

 heart, 247 . 

 lungs (trophic), 792 

 muscles of stomach, 524 

 pancreatic secretion, 493 

 respiration, 359 

 vomiting, 526 

 mixed function of, 629 

 origin, ib. 



Poggendorf s rheochord, 177 

 Pom's commutator, 175 

 Polar globules, 804,806 



function of, 805 

 Polarimeter, 402 

 Polysaecharides, 384 

 Pons Varolii, 619, f>2l 

 grey matter in. 621 

 Portal canals, 498 

 circulation, 2(2 

 vein, 498. See Liver. 

 Porus opticus, 749 

 Postganglionic fibres, 301 

 Preganglionic fibres, ib. 

 Pregnancy, 



corpus liiteum of, 800 

 Presbyopia, 766 

 Pressor nerves, 306 

 Pressure, sense of, 702 

 Pressure-measurers, 281 

 Primitive groove, 808 

 nerve-sheath, or Schwann's sheath, 98 

 ova, 798 

 streak, 808 

 Processus gracilu, 716 



viiginalis, 860 

 Projection fibres, 650 

 Pronephros, 856 

 Pro-nucleus, female, 805 

 male, ih. 



REFLEX ABC. 



Propeptone, 484 

 Prosencephalon, 622, 845, 846 

 Prostate gland, 537 

 Protamines, 402 

 Proteid metabolism, 7 

 Proteids, -, 392 



absorption of, 513 



action on polarized light, 395 



of blood, 413 



classification, 397 



coagulated, 398 



colour reactions, 395 



composition, 393 



conjugated or compound, 397 



crystallisation, 394 



indiffusibility of, tb. 



precipitants of, 396 



simple, 397 



solubilities, 393 

 Proteoses, 393, 398, 485 



characters of, 485 

 Prothrombin, 411, 426 

 Proto-albumose, 484 

 Protoplasm, 6, 8, 803 



chemical structure, 9 



irritability, 15 



movements, 12 et seq., 106 

 Proto-vertebrae, 810, Sir, 824 

 Pseudo-mucin, 399 

 Pseudo-nuclein, 400 

 Pseudopodia, 13, 16 

 Pseudoscope, 789 

 Pseudo-stomata, 219 

 Ptosis, 783 

 Ptyalin, 473, 478 

 Ptyalmogen, 474 

 Pulmonary artery, 834 

 Pulse, anacrotio, 271 



arterial, 267 et seq. 



dicrotic, 272 

 Purine bases, 400, 558 

 Purkinje's cells, 195, 641 



fibres, 96 



figures, 769 



Pyloric glands, 44^, 479 

 Pyramidal tracts, 013 et eq. 

 Pyramids of medulla oblongata, 623 

 of Kidney. ,SVr Kidney. 



Quinquand, output of the heart, 246 



R. 



Racemose glands, 469 



Ranke's metabolic balance-sheet, 585 



diet table, 457, 585 

 Ray mind's disease, 31 1 

 Reaction time in man, 665 

 Reduced eye, 756 

 Reflex arc, 66 1 



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