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INDEX 



Alveolar air, carbon dioxide in, 1206 



composition of, 1175 



sampling of, 1174 

 Alveoli, 1163 

 Amacrine cells, 625 

 Amboceptors, 1159 

 Amide nitrogen of proteins, 101 

 Amines, 54 



action of, 1325 



formed in putrefaction, 173, 1325 

 Amino -acids, 53, 85 



absorption of, 840-845 



aromatic, 93 



esters of, 89 



fate after absorption, 845 



food-value of, 722 



heat equivalents of, 862 



in digestion, 739 



interconvertibility of, 864 



separation of, 88 



sulphur in, 95 



synthesis of, 129, 172 

 Amino-isobutyl acetic acid, 90 

 a-amino-glutaric acid, 91 

 a-amino-succinic acid, 91 

 ct-amino-thiopropionic acid, 96 

 Ammonia, estimation in urine, 1260 



production from amino-acids, 860 

 in acidosis, 865 

 in muscle, 245 



Ammonia-nitrogen of proteins, 101 

 Amoaba, 14 



Amoeboid movement, 277 

 Amphoteric electrolytes, 88, 165 

 Ampulla of semicircular canal, 676 



stimulation of, 679 

 Amylase, 75 



of pancreatic juice, 793 

 Amyloid substance, 117 

 Amyloplasts, 75 

 Amylopsin, 793 

 Anacrotic pulse, 1042 

 Anaemia,, 1131 

 Anaerobic organisms, 27 

 Analgesia, 552 

 Anal sphincter, 825 

 Anaphase of mitosis, 1348 

 Anarthria, 513 

 Anelectrotonus, 298 

 Anisotropous substance, 203 

 Ankle clonus, 379 

 Anodal contraction, 295 

 Anode, 208 

 Ancestrum, 1371 

 Anterior cerebellar tract, 401, 417 



commissure, 482 

 Antidromic fibres, 365 



of Bayliss, 1124 

 Antigens, 1158 

 Ant ily sins, 1155 



Anti-peristalsis in large intestine, 823 

 Antithrombin, 954 

 Antitoxins, 166, 956, 1154 

 Antipeptone, 790 

 Apex-beat, 1018 

 Aphasia, 512 

 Apncea, 1205, 1222 



Apncea spuria, 1223 



vagi, 1222 



vera, 1222 



Aqueduct of Sylvius, 409, 421 

 Arabinose, 66 

 Arachidic acid, 59 

 Arbeitssammler, 249 

 Archipallium, 471 

 Arcuate fibres, 414 

 Arginase, 866 

 Arginine, 92, 93, 100 

 Aristotle 's experiment, 550 

 Aromatic compounds, 54 



substances, fate of, 869-873 

 ' Arrest ' curves, 224, 233 

 Arterial pressure, 983, 986 



and cardiac output, 997 



in man, 987 

 Arteries, distensibility of, 982 



flow in, 1034-1049 



structure of, 981 

 Arterioles, structure of, 981 

 Arytenoid cartilage, 578 



muscle, 581 

 Ascending tracts, 434 

 Ash, estimation in food, 686 

 Asparagine, 91 



food-value of, 723 

 Aspartic acid, 91, 100 

 Aspergillus oryzse, 187 

 Asphyxia, blood- pressure changes in 

 1105 



factors in, 1106-1108 



in decerebrate animal, 1107 



stages of, 1204 

 Assimilation, 4, 26 

 Association areas, 511 



cells of cortex, 483 



centres, 488 



fibres of cerebrum, 481 



sensory, 509 

 Astasia, 456 

 Asthenia, 456 

 Astigmatism, 598 

 Asymmetric carbon atoms, 56 

 Ataxy, 391, 669 

 Atonia, 456 

 Attraction sphere, 17 

 Atwater- Benedict calorimeter, 696 

 Auditory area, 505 



fatigue, 576 



localisation, 577 



nerve, nucleus of, 427, 428 



ossicles, 571 



mechanics of, 572 



projection, 577 



radiation, 479 



sensations, 562 



analysis of, 575 

 Audito -sensory area, 488 

 Auerbach's plexus, 523, 529 



in intestine, functions of, 818, 819 



in stomach, 784 

 Auras in epilepsy, 497, 503 

 Auricle, pressure-changes in, 1015 

 Auriculo- ventricular bundle, 1006, 1072 

 node, 1072 



