INDEX 579 



Epithelium, secreting, in sweat glands. 192 



in tubules of kidney, 180, 182 

 Equilibriuni, bodily, maintenance of, 523 

 Erect position, how maintained, 17 

 Essential food-stutfs, 281 



Ether, vibrations of, physical basis of light, 426 

 Eustachian tube, 2:U, 369 



probable office of, 389 

 Evaporation from the lungs, 5 



from the skin, 5, 204 

 Excretions {ex, from : cerno, I separate), a table of, 270 

 amount of oxygen contained in, 6 

 solid matter in, 565 

 Excretory organs, 23, 171 

 Expiration and inspiration (exspiro, I breathe out), 145, 167 



usually performed silently, 332 

 Expired air, analysis of, 564 

 Extension of limbs, 326 

 Eye, the, 398 et seq. 



accommodation of, 409 

 as a water-camera, 404 

 blind spot of, 427 

 muscles of, 306, 403, 414 

 nerve supply to, 510 

 yellow spot of, 418 

 Eyeball, component parts of, 398 

 Eyelids and eyelashes, 415 



Face, cavity of, 10 



Facial nerves. 516 



Faeces (fcex. grounds), 23. 227. 265, 266, 270 



Fainting effected by action of the pneumogastric, 72 



Faintness. sense of, 343 



Fangs of teeth. 231. 232 



Fascia (a band) of a muscle, 289 



Fat cells, 559 



Fatigue, a cause of. 343 



of retina, 435 

 Fats, absorbed by the lymphatics, 266 



in blood corpuscles, 103 



emulsified in duodenum, 260, 263 



as food, 225, 226, 272, 569 



given up from the blood to the tissues, 171, 271 



acted on by gastric juice, 248 



weight of, in body, 268 

 Fatty tissue, 559 

 Fauces 229 



Femur (the thigh), structure of, 299, 304 

 Fenestra (a window or opening) ovalis, 370 



rotunda, 370, 375 

 Ferments, action and composition of, 243 

 in blood, 115 

 in csecum, 265 

 Fever, temperature of, 207 

 Fibre cells, cardiac. 44 

 Fibres, circular or sphincter, of eye, 402, 403, 407 



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