INDEX 



1413 



Ortho position, 54 

 Osamines, 68 

 Osazones, 52, 68, 1254 

 Osmometer, 158, 159 

 Osmotic pressure, 137, 147 



Barger's method, 143 

 Beckmann's method, 143, 144 

 and boiling point, 143 

 of colloids, 159 

 of electrolytes, 141 

 freezing-point method, 143 

 by haemolysis, 141 

 Hamburger's method, 141 

 measurement of, 138-143 



by plasmolysis, 140 

 of proteins, 83, 158 

 of serum proteins, 158 

 and transport of water, 148 

 and vapour tension, 143 

 Osseous labyrinth, 573, 675 

 Osteoporosis, 700 

 Otic ganglion, 528 

 Otolith organ, 449, 676, 680 

 Otoliths, function of, 680 

 Outer cell lamina of cortex, 483 

 Outer fibre-lamina of cortex, 483 

 Outer line of Baillarger, 486 

 Overtones, 564 

 Overtones theory, 24 

 Ovulation, 1366 

 Ovum, 1347 



maturation of, 1352 

 Oxalate crystals, 1257 

 Oxidases in tissues, 1237 

 Oxidation, 174, 1186, 1233-1239 

 by indigo, 179 

 mechanisms of, 1233-1239 

 seat of, in body, 1186 

 Oxyacids, 53 



origin of, 860 

 Oxygen, 42 



absorption of, in lungs, 1185 



' active,' 1235 



avidity of tissues for, 1186 



capacity of blood, 1178 



effect of changes in tension of, 1226 



lack, in asphyxia, 1107 



production of lactic acid in, 1210 

 tension in alveoli, 1185, 1194 

 in blood, 1194 



in blood by CO method, 1198 

 Oxyhsemoglobin, 927 



absorption spectrum of, 930 

 crystals, 928 

 dissociation of, 1182 

 influence of acids on reduction of, 1 186 

 p-oxyphenyl alanine. 93 

 Oxyproline, 94, 95 



PACINIAN corpuscles, 554 



Pain impulses, path of in cord, 404 



sense, 551 

 Palmitic acid, 59 

 Pancreas, internal secretion of, 912 



structural changes accompanying 

 secretion, 798 



extirpation of, 910 



Pancreatic diabetes, 910 

 fistula, 795 

 juice, 788 



action on carbohydrates, 793 

 fats, 794 

 milk, 793 

 proteins, 789 

 activation of, 792 



by calcium salts, 793 

 composition, 789 

 secretion of, 795 

 variations in, 798 



secretion, effect of acids in duode- 

 num, 796 

 regulation of, 798 

 secretin, 797 

 Pangene, 21 

 Para position, 54 

 Parabanic acid, 879 

 Paracasein, 1387 

 Paracentral lobe, 473 

 Paradox cold, 545 

 Paradoxical contraction, 318 

 Paraffins, 49 

 Paraglobulin, 108 

 Paramoacium, conjugation of, 1343 

 Paramucin, 117 

 Paramyosinogen, 108, 238 

 Paranuclein, 111, 772 

 Paraplasm, 17 



Parathyroids, functions of, 1329 

 Parietal lobe, 473 

 Parotid gland, 743 



innervation of, 746 

 Parthenogenesis, 1355 

 Partition coefficient, 25 

 Parturition, 1381-1383 



nervous mechanism of, 1383 

 Passive movement, 671 

 Pawlow's gastric fistula, 773 

 Pelvic visceral nerve. 528 



action on bladder, 1295 

 Pendular movements of intestine, 817, 



818 



Pendulum myograph, 218, 219 

 Pentachromic vision, 648 

 Pentamethylene diamine, 173 

 Pentosanes, 66, 118 

 Pentoses, 66, 116 

 Pentosuria, 66 

 Pepsin, action of, 768 

 Peptone, food value of, 722 

 Peptones, 111 



fractionation of, 769 

 Peptonised blood, 948, 958 

 Pericardium, use of, 1008, 1025 

 Perilymph, 573 

 Perimeter, 628 



Peripheral ganglia, inhibition in, 531 

 nerve nets, 523 

 reflexes, 529 

 Peripolar zone, 302 

 Peristalsis, 819 



Permeability of membranes, 24, 140 

 Peroxidases, 1237 

 Pes, 421 

 Pettenkofer' s respiration apparatus, 691 



