INDEX. 



1025 



Bile-acids, composition of, 815 

 Bile-duct, sphincter of, 821 

 Bile-pigments, 437, 814 

 Bile-salts, importance of, in fat diges- 

 tion, 804, 822 

 Bilirubin, 814 

 Biliverdin, 814 



Binocular perspective, 378, 380 

 vision, 368 



horopter in, 375 



struggle of visual fields in, 375 



value of, in judgments of distance, 



381 



of size, 381 



Biological reaction, 425 

 Births, ratio of male and female, 999 

 Biuret* reaction for proteins, 1012 

 Bladder, urinary, movements of. 857 



sphincter of, 857 

 gall-, movements of, 820 

 Blind spot in eye, 337 

 Blood, blood-plates of, physiology of, 



444 



circulation of. See Circulation. 

 coagulation of, 452 

 condition of carbon dioxid in, 679 



of nitrogen in, 676 

 curve of dissociation of oxvhemo- 



globin, 678 

 defibrinated, 416 

 gases of, 669 



general properties of, 415 

 hemoglobin of, 420 

 amount, 426 

 nature. 426 



hemolysis of red corpuscles, 421 

 histological structure of, 415 

 leukocytes of, 442 

 meionectic, 679 

 mesectic, 679 

 nucleoprotein in, 452 

 osmotic pressure of, 422 

 pleonectic, 679 

 proteins of, 447, 449 

 reaction of, 416 

 red corpuscles of, 420 

 fate of, 437 

 origin of, 437 

 regeneration of, after hemorrhage, 



469 



specific gravity of, 419 * 

 total quantity of, 468 

 transfusion of, 471 

 Blood-plasma, composition of, 447 

 Blood-plates, properties of, 444 

 Blood-pressure, 489 

 diastolic, 493 



effect of menstruation upon, 971 

 in brain, 630, 631 

 in capillaries, 499 

 in man, 500, 505 

 mean, 493 



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Blood-pressure, relation of, to heart- 

 rate, 597 



respiratory waves of, 662 



systolic, 493 



Traube-Hering waves of, 616 



venous and capillary, 507 

 Blood-serum, 416, 448 

 Body equilibrium in nutrition, 893 



sense area, 203 



temperature in man, 945 

 Bowman's theory of urinary secre- 

 tion, 835 

 Brachium conjunctivum, 235 



pontis, 237 

 Brain, association areas of, 223 



auditory center in, 212 



center for ol faction, 216 

 for taste, 218 



centers affected in aphasia, 219, 223 



development of cortical areas, 226 



effect of variations in arterial pres- 

 sure upon, 630 



histological differentiation of cor- 

 tex of, 229 



intracranial pressure in, 628 



localization of function in, 192 



motor areas of, 196 



regulation of circulation in, 624 



sensory areas of, 202 



vascular supply of, 624 

 Brightness in visual sensations, 347 

 Bronchi, capacity of, 655 



constrictor and dilator fibers of, 702 

 Bulbospiral fibers of heart, 535 



CAFFEIN, 925 



Caisson disease, 706 



Calcarine fissure, relation of, to vision, 



210 

 Calcium, amount of, in cataract, 924 



salts, effect of, on heart, 570 

 in curdling of milk, 782 

 nutritive value of, 922 

 secretion of, in milk, 475 

 Calorie, definition of, 947 

 Calorimeters, varieties of, 947 

 Calorimetric equivalent, 949 



measurements, 952 

 Calorimetry, indirect, 950 



principles of, 947 

 Cannula, washout, 491 

 Capillary blood-pressure, 499 



electrometer, construction of, 98 

 Carbohemoglobin, 429 

 Carbohydrates, absorption of, 802 



as glycogen formers, 824 



as source of body fat, 919 



fermentation of, in intestine, 807 



general functions of, 913 



metabolism of, in body, 907 



of muscle, 63 



