568 INDEX 



Air, alveolar, 155 



in lungs, residual, stationary, and tidal, 148-150, 564 

 odoriferous, 366, 367 

 waste, 151 

 Air cavities in turbinal bones, 364 

 Air cells in lungs, 133, 140, 150 

 Air tension in ear, regulation of, 389 

 Albumin (white of egg, alhinn, white) in blood, 109 



as a food, 225, 274 

 Albuminous glands, 239 

 Alimentary canal, functions of, 227 



muscular fibres of, 303 

 organs, 22 

 Alimentation (alo, I nourish), fmiction of, 224-284 



organs of, 227 

 Alkaline reaction of bile, 263 

 blood, 106 



living muscle, 299, 300 

 pancreatic juice, 25'.) 

 sweat, 108 

 Alveoli (a small hollow vessel) of lymphatic glands, 89 

 of infundibulum, 133 

 of salivary glands, 238 

 Alveolar air, 155 



Amocbir (o>JOl^o^;. reciprocal), likeness of colourless corpuscles to, 102 

 Amtpboid movements of wliite corpuscles, 102, 286, 557 

 Ampulla' (am}iuUa, a tiask or bottle) of semicircular canals of ear, 393 

 Amputation (ambo, around ; p!<to, 1 cut) of tongue, effect of, 338 

 Amyloids (afivAoi'. starch) as food, 226 

 digested in mouth, 264 

 not acted on directly by gastric juice, 248 

 " Animal starch," 215 

 Animated photographs, 428 



Anterior and posterior cornua (horns) of spinal cord, 457 

 Anterior nerve roots of cord motor in function, 473 



connected with nerve cells of anterior 

 cornua, 492 

 Anterior pyramids of medulla oblongata, decussation of, 520 

 Antero-lateral tracts of spinal cord, 491, 493 

 Aorta (aeipuj, I take up, or carry), 38 

 amount of jiressure on, 564 

 abdominal, 170 

 valves of, 47 

 Apex of heart, felt in " beating " of the heart, 57 



its position, 42 

 Appendix, vermiform, 251 

 Aqueduct of Sylvius, 5041, 505 

 Aqueous (aqua, water) humour of eye, 399 

 Arachnoid (a.paxvr\<;, a spider, or spider's web ; e'Sos, shape), its fluid 



and membrane, 453 

 Areolar (areola, a little space) tissue, 86, 553 

 Arterial blood, 124, 126 

 Arterial tone. 68 



Arteries (upT>)p. that by which anything is suspended), 

 bleeding in jets from, when cut, 58, 79 



calibre of, regulation by vaso-motor system, 34, 66, 67, 205 

 elasticity of, 33, 56, 62 

 filling of, 56 



