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INDEX 



Relaxation phase of muscle, 514 

 Remak's fibers, 67 



ganglia, 196 

 Rennin, 347, 373 



action of, 373, 406 

 Reproductive glands, relation of to 



metabolism, 498 

 organs, 768 

 of female, 772 

 of male, 768 

 Reserve air, 295, 328 

 Residual air, 295 

 Respiration, 278 



changes in diameter of chest, dur- 

 ing, 327 



effect of altitude on, 318 

 effect on circulation, 323 

 of atmospheric pressure on, 318 

 of various gases on, 318 

 of vitiated air on, 317 

 expiration, 290 



influence of cutaneous nerves 



on, 331 

 of general sensory nerves on, 313, 



33i 

 of glosso-pharyngeal nerves on, 



3i3 



of phrenic nerves on, 332 



of superior laryngeal nerves on, 

 312 



of vagus nerves on, 311, 331 

 inspiration, 287 

 internal, 279 



laboratory experiments in, 327 

 mechanism of, 287 

 nervous apparatus of, 310, 331 

 rate, 327 

 rhythm of, 291 

 special types of, 315 

 tissue, 279 



volume of air breathed, 299, 328 

 Respiratory apparatus, 279 



elimination of carbon dioxide by, 



309 



nervous regulation of, 310 

 capacity, 295, 328 



circumstances affecting, 296 

 center, 310, 614 



automatic action of, 313 



stimulation of, 313 

 changes in air breathed, 297 



in the blood, 301 



Respiratory changes in the tissues, 308 



interchange, 330 



movements, 287 

 character of, 326 

 establishment of, at birth, 315 

 nervous mechanism of, 331 

 of nostrils and glottis, 291 

 rate and character of, 331 

 recording of, 291 

 relative time of, 293 



murmur, 294 



muscles, force of, 297 



pressure, 301, 328 



quotient, 300 



rate, 296, 327 



rhythm, 293 



action of stimuli on, 311 



terms for quantity of air breathed, 



294 

 Resuscitation from drowning, 321 



from electric shock, 321 

 Rete mucosum, 442 

 Reticular formation in medulla, 608 

 Reticulum, 9, 17 

 Retina, 719 



cones of, 721 



inverted image on, 760 



layers of, 720 



localization in, 744 



movements of pigment cells, 746 



rods of, 721 

 Retinal image, duration of, 765 



relation of size to distance, 764 

 Retinoscopy, 766 

 Rheoscopic frog, 534 

 Rhodopsin, 745 



Rhythmical contractility of heart, 196 

 Rhythmicity of arterial flow, 230 

 Ribs, movement of, in respiration, 287 

 Rigor mortis, 526 



heart, 180 



heat, 527 



order of occurrence, 527 

 Rima glottidis, 279 

 Rolandic area, 642 

 Running, 543 



Saccharose, 100 

 Sacculus, 704, 715 

 Sacral autonomies, 671 

 Saliva, 354 



action of, on starch, 355, 356, 401 



