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INDEX 



Electrolytic solution tension, 171 

 Electrotonic current, 280 

 Electrotonus, 264 



influence of intrapolar length, 268 

 Electro-vagogram, 1093 

 Eleidin, 1161 



Embryo, nutrition of, 1231 

 Emmetropic eye. 535 

 Emulsion, 56 



theory of protoplasm, 18 

 Endocardiac pressure, 896-902 



negative phase, 902 

 Endolymph, 515 

 End-plate delay, 276 

 End-plates, 183, 275 



effect of nicotine on, 277 



fatigue of, 260 

 End-products, effect of, on ferments, 166, 



167 



Enemata, nutrient, value of, 723 

 Energy balance-sheet of body, 620 



exchange, 3, 26 



exchanges of, in body, 620-623 



sources of, 25 



total daily output of, 650 



transformations of, 1 23 

 Engelmann's contractile strings, 234 

 Enterokinase, 703, 705 

 Enteroceptive nervous system, 479 

 Enterograph, 817 

 Entoptic phenomena, 536 

 Enzymes, see Ferments 

 Eosinophile leucocytes, 813 

 Ependyma, 362, 375 

 Epiblast, 33 



Epicritic sensibility, 495 

 Epididymis, function of, 1220 



structure of, 1220 

 Epilepsy, 438, 446 

 Epithelium, ciliated, 277-249 

 Equilibration, 399 



dynamic, 606 



functions of labyrinth in, 605 



static, 608 

 Erectile tissue, 1221 

 Erection, 1221 

 Erepsin, 720 

 Erg, definition, 262 

 Ergastoplasm, 672 

 Ergotoxin, action of, 1184 

 Erlanger's sphygmomanometer, 876 

 Erythroblasts, 832 

 Erythrodextrin, 68, 662 

 Esbach's reaction, 95 

 Ester method for separation of amino-acids, 



80 

 Esters, 46, 47, 53 



mixed, 54 



glyceryl, 54 



Ethereal sulphates, excretion of, 769 

 Ethylamine, 49 

 Euglobulin, 866 

 Eustachian tube, 513 



valve, 1233 

 Excitability, 26 

 Excitation, duration of current, 271 



effect of intrapolar length, 268 



minimal gradient, 272 



Nernst's theory, 286 



rate of change, 270 



strength of current, 271 



Excitation, time, 272 



without contraction, 231 

 Excitatory process, nature of, 284 



response, nature of, 271 

 Exophthalmic goitre, 1189 

 Extensibility of muscle, 203 

 Extensor reflex, 332 

 External auditory meatus, 512 

 Exteroceptive nervous system, 479 

 Eye, angle between axes in, 533. 



centring of, 537 



constants of, in man, 533 



dark-adapted, 482 



filtration angle of, 5J)- 



movements, centres for, 407, 438 



optical defects in, 535 

 Eyeball, dioptric mechanism of, 528 530 



electrical changes in, 566 



nutrition of, 594-597 



rotation of, 586 



Eyeballs, movements of, 585-588 

 Eye-muscles, extrinsic, 585 

 intrinsic, 552 



innervation of, 552 



FACIAL nerve, nucleus of, 379, 381, 413 



Facilitation of reflexes, 305 

 Faeces, composition of, 755 



examination of, in metabolism experi- 

 ments, 648 



Faraday-Tyndall phenomenon, 144 

 Far point of vision, 546 

 Fasciculus retroflexus, 421 



solitarius, 368, 378 

 Fasting, metabolism in, 618, 624-630 

 Fatigue, muscular, 208 

 Fat, 45, 53, 55, 784 



absorption of, 738 



acid number of, 56 



composition of, 784 



depots, 783 



estimation in faeces, 649 

 in food, 614 



formation from food, 785 



from carbohydrates, 785 

 from proteins, 788 



functions of, 784 



history of, in body, 783-795 



in intestinal epithelium, 740 



iodine number of, 56, 784 



metabolism in starvation, 630 



oxidation of, 792 



saponification number of, 56 



solubility of, 742 



stains for, 739 



synthesis of, 119, 169 



utilisation of, in body, 790 

 Fats, action of gastric juice on, 689 



action of pancreatic juice on, 707 



chemistry of, 53-58 



influence of, on metabolism, 636 

 Fatty acids, 54 



heat equivalents, 763 

 volatile, 56 



Fatty degeneration, nature of, 739 

 Fechner's law, 485 

 FeMing'stest, 64, 1123 

 Fenestra ovalis, 515 

 Fenton's reaction, 1109 

 Ferment action, adsorption in, 168 



reversibility of, 167, 169 



