INDEX 



1259 



Knee-jerk, exaggerated, 451 



latent period, 334 

 Knoop on deamination, 762 

 K) ante's membrane, 179 

 .KVogrA's.microtonometer, 1070 

 Kuhne's gracilis experiment, 254 

 Kymograph, 872 



LABIAL consonants, 527 



Labour, 1235 



Labyrinth, evolution of, 603 



functions of, 398 

 Labyrinthine sensation, 603 

 Laccase, 1109 

 Lacrymal gland, 594 

 Lactalbumen, 1240 

 Lactase, action of, 158, 165 

 in intestinal juice, 721 

 Lactation, 1237-1245 

 Lacteals, 734, 1013 

 Lactic acid, 49 



Hopkins' test, 215 

 in blood, 1085 

 in gastric juice, 684 

 in muscle, 215 

 in urine, 216, 1085 

 Lactoglobulin, 1240 

 Lactosazone crystals, 1122 

 Lactose, 67 1240 

 Lsevorotation, 52 

 Lsevulinic acid, 104 

 Lagena, 603 

 Lamina cinerea, 375 

 Langerhans' islets in pancreas, 807 

 Lanoline, 56 

 Lardacein, 106 



Large intestine, absorption in, 723 

 excretion in, 724 

 functions of, 722 

 movements of, 725-732 

 Laryngoscope, 523 

 Larynx, anatomy of, 521 



movements of, in deglutition, 678 

 Latent period, 198, 207 

 Lateral columns of cord, 354 

 crico-arytenoid muscle, 522 

 fillet, 372, 387 

 nucleus in medulla, 366 



in pons, 370 



sympathetic ganglia, 468 

 Lateritious deposit, 1118 

 Laurie acid, 54 

 Law of forward direction, 310 



of the intestines, 727 

 Law of specific irritability, 480 

 Lecithin, 57 

 Leclanche cell, 187 

 Lemniscus, 368, 387 

 Lens, 543 



elasticity of, 546 

 variation with age, 546 

 Lenses, formation of images by, 528 

 Lenticular ganglion, 552 

 Legumin, 98 

 Leguminous nodules, 41 

 Leucine, 82, 91 



cones, 82 



Leucines, oxidisability of, 1106 

 Leucocytes, chemiotaxis in, 1026 

 classification of, 813 

 origin of, 815 



Leucoplasts, 17 

 Leucosin, 98 



Lever, momentum of, 197 

 Levulose, (it 



Liebermanri's reaction, 94 

 Life, evolution of, 5, 6, 33 

 laws of, 7 



without oxygen, 25 

 Ligamentum pectinatum iridis, 543 

 Light, nature of, 568 



reflex, 550 

 Lignin, 106 

 Lignoceric acid, 54 

 Limbic lobe, 417 



Liminal intensity of stimulus, 482 

 Limulus heart, 946 

 Line of Gennari, 430 

 Lines of direction, 531 

 Linin, 17 

 Linoleic acid, 54 

 Linolinic acid, 54 



series, 54 



Lipase of pancreatic juice, 707 

 in gastric juice, 689 

 reversibility of action of, 169 

 Lipines, 57 

 Lipoids, 23, 57 

 Liquor folliculi, 1223 

 Lissauer's tract, 324, 353, 357 

 Liver, bile formation in, 713 

 formation of urea in, 759 



of uric acid in, 778 

 glycogen of, 797 

 haemolysis in, 835 

 lymph production in, 1015 

 Living matter, chemical changes in, 153-169 

 Load, effect of a contraction, 203 

 Local reflexes, 474 



sign of tactile sensation, 493 

 Locke's fluid, 963 



Localisation of function in brain, 435 

 Locomotion, co-ordination of, 346 

 Locomotor ataxia, 346 

 Locus perforatus posticus, 375 

 Long ciliary nerves, 552 



sight, 536 

 Longitudinal inferior fasciculus, 426 



superior fasciculus, 426 

 Loudness of sound, 506 

 Ludwig's Stromuhr, 888 



manometer, 872 



Luminosity of spectral colours, 569, 575 

 Lungs, circulation in, 935 

 distensibility of, 1044 

 exchange of gases in, 1068-1075 

 Lungs, vaso-motor fibres of, 935 

 Lutein, 1224 

 Lily's nucleus, 377 

 Lymph, absorption of, 1019 

 movements of, 1017 

 production, 1013 



effect of capillary pressure on, 1015 

 in small intestine, 735 

 osmotic phenomena in, 1015 

 properties of, 1013 

 role, of, in nutrition, 1020 

 and tissue fluids, 1012-1020 

 Lymphagogues, 1016 

 Lymphatic glands, 1013 



tissue, structure of, 815 

 Lymphatics, course of, 1012 



