INDEX 



Abdomen (abdo, I hide), 8 



walls of, 253 

 Abdominal aorta, 170 



viscera, weight of, 268 

 Abdiicens (o6, from ; duco, I lead) nerve, 516 

 Abduction, 326 



Absorption (a6, from ; sorbeo, I suck up) from alimentary canal, 23, 172, 



224 

 blood, 171 

 mtestines, 264, 265 

 stomach, 249 

 of oxygen, 24, 106, 128, 162, 

 174, 570 

 see Water 

 Accelerator nerves, 73 

 Accessory food-stuflfs, 281 

 Accommodation of the eye, mechanism of, 409 



limits of, 412 

 Acetabulum (a vessel holdiiis; vinegar), construction of, 325, 326 

 Acid, acetic, appearance of blood treated with, 101 



connective tissue treated with, 553 

 reaction of gastric juice, 246 



urine, 183 

 carbonic, see Carbonic acid 

 hydrochloric, calcareous salts dissolved out of bone by, 309 



in gastric juice, 247 

 taurocholic, 262 

 uric, 184 

 Acids of the bile, 214 



on respiration, 164 

 Acts, particular, connected with particular parts of bram surface, 525 

 " Adam's Apple," 330 

 Adduction (ad, to ; duco, I lead), 326 

 Adenoid tissue, 90, 5,59 

 Adipose (adeps, fat) tissue. 559 

 Adjustment of the eye, how accomplished, 409 

 Aerial waves from sonorous bodies, 379 

 Afferent and efferent impulses, path of, along cord, 488 

 , in medulla oblongata, 520 



nerves. 340, 476 

 Air, atmospheric, composition of, 6 .„,„„,„. .o, 



changes in, effected by respiration, 4, 6, 128, 13d, 564 



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