INDEX 585 



Lactose in food, 277 

 Lacunae of bones, 310 

 LamellEB of cerebellum, 510 

 Lamina spiralis (spiral plate) of ear, 374 

 Langerhaus, Islets of, 261 

 Laryngeal nerve, superior. 161 

 Larynx (Aopuyf, throat), mechanism of, 129, 327 

 artificial, 338 

 voice produced by, 329 

 Lateral lieanients, 325 

 Layers of the retina. 418 

 Leather made from the dermis, 12 

 Lens (a lentil seed), adjustment of. 409 



crystalline. 399, 405 

 Lenses, concave and convex, 440 



Leucin and other amino acids, urea secreted from, 189, 264 

 Leucocytes in lymphatic glands, 90, 118, 256 

 Levator (lero, I raise). 416 

 Levatores costarum, 142 



Levers {levo, 1 raise), bones considered as, 14, 303, 314-318 

 Lieberkiihn. glands of, 255 

 Life and Death, 26 

 Ligaments (lif/o. 1 bind), 320, 325 

 ciliary. 402 

 forming pulleys, 415 

 lateral. 325 

 round. 325 



suspensory, of lens, 400, 401 

 vocal, 330 

 Ligamentum nuchse, 553 

 Light, sensation of, 426, 428, 429 

 Limbs, 8. 18 



ascending and descending, of kidney, 180 

 outer and inner, of rods and cones. 425 

 Lime, salts of, in bone. 14, 309 

 Lime-water, how changed by breathing ttirough, 5 

 Liquids, behaviour of gases and, 134 

 Liver, blood supply to the, 209, 210 

 described, 207 

 formation of urea by, 189 

 glycogen stored in the, 213, 215 

 position of, 9 



secretion of bile by the, 213, 261 

 vessels of the, 40 

 work of the, 213 

 Lobes of liver, 209 

 of lungs, 133 

 Lobules of the liver, 209 

 of the lungs, 133 

 Local death unceasing, 20 

 Locomotion (locux, a place ; vioveo, 1 move), how effected, 26 



mechanics of, 328 

 Long sight. 413 

 Loop of Henle. 180 

 Losses of the blood. 170-175 



body. 562 

 Luminous impression on eye, duration of, 427 

 Lungs, absorption of oxygen by, 24, 127, 162, 173, 564 



