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INDEX 



Maturation (ovum), 35 

 Maxilla (bone), 67 

 Meatus, external auditory, 65 

 Mediastinum, 241 

 Medulla (oblongata), 355 

 centres in, 357 

 functions of, 357 

 of kidney, 316 

 Medullary canal of bone, 55, 



59 



endosteum of, 58 

 rays of kidney, 317 

 Medullated nerve fiber, 334 

 Meibomian glands, 397 

 Meissner corpuscles, 340 

 Membrana granulosa of ovary, 



424 



tympani, 408 



Membrane or membranes, 45, 291 

 of brain, 355 

 mucous, 45, 291 



function of, 45, 291 

 location of, 45 

 structure of, 45 

 serous, 46, 291 



function of, 46, 47 

 location of, 46 

 of spinal cord, 346 

 synovial, 107, 292 

 function of, 107, 292 

 location, 107 

 varieties of, 107 

 Memory, centre of, 367 

 Menopause, 428 

 Menses, 427 

 Menstruation, 427 

 cause of, 427 

 period of, 427 

 Mesenteric artery, inferior, 205 



superior, 205 

 vein, inferior, 216 



superior, 216 

 Mesoderm, 40 

 Metabolism, 29 

 Metacarpal bones, 92 

 Metatarsal bones, 104 

 Micturition, 314 

 Middle constrictor muscle, 133 

 Milk, 291 



action of rennin upon, 279 

 amount secreted in twenty- 

 four hours, 294 

 colostrum of, 295 

 difference in composition of, 



cow, 294 

 human, 294 



as a food, 294 

 Milk-sugar or lactose, 22 

 Mineral salts in bone, 57 



Molasses, 22 



Molecular disturbance of a nerve, 



344 



Mons veneris, 417 

 Motility of a cell, 33 

 of white cells, 220 

 Motor areas in brain, 364 

 nerve, 339 



roots of spinal cord, 349 

 Mouth or oral cavity, 252 



digestion in, 275, 276 

 Movements, kinds of, in a joint, 



111 



Mucin, 45, 291 

 Mucous membranes, 45, 291 

 function of, 45 

 layers of, 45 

 location of, 45 

 secretions, 291 

 varieties of, 291 

 Multipolar nerve cell, 333 

 Muscle or muscle tissue, 117 

 abductor hallucis, 171 



minimi digiti, of hand, 157 



of foot, 171 

 pollicis, 157 



adductor brevis (thigh), 166 

 longus (thigh), 164 

 magnus (thigh), 166 

 obliquus hallucis, 171 



pollicis, 157 

 transversus hallucis, 171 



pollicis, 157 

 anconeus, 155 

 arrangement of muscle fibers, 



118, 119 



attachment of, to skeleton, 122 

 biceps, arm, 149 



leg, 164 



brachialis anticus, 149 

 buccinator, 131 

 classification of, 117 

 constrictor, of pharynx, 133 

 contractility of, 121 

 coracobrachialis, 149 

 cranial, 124 

 crureus, 162 

 deltoid, 147 

 depressor anguli oris, 130 



labii inferioris, 130 

 depressors of hyoid bone, 136 

 derivation of names, 122 

 diaphragm, 140 

 digastric, 136 



elevators of hyoid bone, 136 

 extensor brevis digitorum, 170 



pollicis, 156 



carpi radalis brevior, 154 

 longior, 154 



