1248 



Amino-acids, esters of, 80 

 fate after absorption, 750 

 food- value of, 645 

 heat equivalents of, 763 

 in digestion, 659 

 interconvertibility of, 765 

 separation of, 80 

 sulphur in, 86 

 synthesis of, 115, 154 

 Amino-isobutyl acetic acid, 82 

 a-amino-glutaric acid, 82 

 a-amino-succinic acid, 82 

 a-amino-thiopropionic acid, 86 

 Ammonia, estimation in urine, 1127 

 production from amino-acids, 761 



in acidosis, 766 



Ammonia-nitrogen of proteins, 92 

 Amoeba, 14 



Amoeboid movement, 248 

 Amphoteric electrolytes, 80, 149 

 Amylase, 68 



of pancreatic juice, 706 

 Amyloid substance, 106 

 Amyloplasts, 68 

 Amylopsin, 706 

 Anacrotic pulse, 926 

 Anaemia, 1011 

 Anaerobic organisms, 26 

 Analgesia, 495 

 Anal sphincter, 732 

 Anaphase of mitosis, 1206 

 Anarthria, 454 

 Anelectrotonus, 265 

 Anisotropous substance, 182 

 Ankle clonus, 335 

 Anodal contraction, 263 

 Anode, 187 

 Ancestrum, 1226 

 Anterior cerebellar tract, 354, 371 



commissure, 426 

 Antidromic fibres. 22& 999 

 Antigens, 1036 -^ 

 Antilysins, 1033 



Anti-peristalsis in large intestine, 730 

 Antithrombin, 846 

 Antitoxins, 150, 847, 1032 

 Antipeptone, 704 

 Apex-beat, 903 

 Aphasia, 454 

 Apncea, 1080, 1095 

 spuria, 1096 

 vagi, 1096 

 vera, 1096 



Aqueduct of Sylvius, 363, 373 

 Arabinose, 61 

 Arachidic acid, 54 

 Archipallium, 417 

 Arcuate fibres, 367 

 Arginase, 767 

 Arginine, 83, 84, 91 

 Aristotle's experiment, 493 

 Aromatic compounds, 49 



substances, fate of, 770-773 

 * Arrest ' curves, 200, 208 

 Arterial pressure, 872, 874 



and cardiac output, 

 in man, 875 



Arteries, distensibility of, 871 

 flow in, 918-931 

 structure of, 870 

 Arterioles, structure of, 870 



INDEX 



884 



Arytenoid cartilage, 520 



muscle, 521 

 Ascending tracts, 387 

 Ash, estimation in food, 614 

 Asparagine, 83 



food-value of, 646 

 Aspartic acid, 82, 91 

 Aspergillus oryzse, 168 

 Asphyxia, blood-pressure changes in, 



984 



factors in, 984-987 

 in decerebrate animal, 985 

 stages of, 1079 

 Assimilation, 425 

 Association areas, 452 

 cells of cortex, 427 

 centres, 433 

 fibres of cerebrum, 427 

 sensory, 451 

 Astasia, 404 

 Asthenia, 404 

 Asthma, 1048 

 Astigmatism, 538 

 Asymmetric carbon atoms, 51 

 Ataxy, 346, 598 

 Atonia, 404 

 Attraction sphere, 16 

 Atwater -Benedict calorimeter, 622 

 Auditory area, 447 

 fatigue, 518 

 localisation, 518 

 nerve, nucleus of, 379, 380 

 ossicles, 513 



mechanics of, 514 

 projection, 518 

 radiation, 423 

 sensations, 503 



analysis of, 517 

 Audito-sensory area, 433 

 Auerbactis plexus, 469, 474 



in intestine, functions of, 726, 727 

 in stomach, 699 

 Aurse in epilepsy, 439, 446 

 Auricle, pressure-changes in, 901 

 Auriculo-ventricular bundle, 893, 952 



node, 952 



Autonomic fibres, afferent, 476 

 cranial, 472 

 of vagus, 473 

 sacral, 473 



system, classification of, 470 

 Autonomic nervous system, 466-477 

 Autoxidisable substances, 1106 

 Average error method, 484 

 Avogadrd's hypothesis, 126 

 Axis cylinder, 251 

 Axon, 251 



reflexes, 474 



in vaso-dilator fibres, 999 



BACTERIA, action on amino-acids, 76 



of putrefaction, 155 

 Bacterium nitromonas, 40 

 Bahnung, 305 



in cortex, 441 

 Balanced reactions, 166 

 Balance-sheets of body, 613 

 Barcroft's blood-gas apparatus, 1055 

 Barger's method, 129 



Barometric pressure, influence on alveolar 

 C0 2 , 1082 





