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INDEX 



Intermittent muscular exercise, 470 

 Internal respiration, 547 



secretions, mode of action, 611 

 Interoceptive receptors, 96 

 Interrenal tissue, 609 

 Intestinal wall, enzymes of, 328 



mechanism of secretion, 328 

 Intestine, 295 



absorption from, 348 



capacity, 301 



digestion in, 319 ef seq. 



large, 296 



length, 301 



movements of, 332 



secretion, 328 

 Intracardiac pressure, 399 

 Inverted image rectified, 166 

 lodothyreoglobulin, 596 

 lodothvrin, 596 

 Iris, 140 



Islets of Langerhans, 300, 601 

 Isometric contraction, 225 

 Isotonic contraction, 225 



Jacksonian epilepsy, 191 

 Jacobson's nerve, 305 



Karyoplasm, 27 

 Karyosomes, 27 

 Kellner's standards, 376 

 Keratin, 32 



Ketones (see Appendix I.) 

 Kidney, 571 et seq. 



influence of nervous s}'stem, 

 580 



nerves of, 572 



regulation of ions, 556 



structure, 571 

 Kilogram-metre, 242 

 Kiusesthetic sense {see Muscle-joint 



sense) 

 Knee-jerks, 89 



Labyrinth, osseous, 117, 170 



connections with central nerv- 

 ous system, 119 

 physiology, 121 



Labyriutho-cerebellar mechanism, 

 117 

 physiology, 121 



Lactase, 328 



Lactation. 634 



Lactose, 286 



Lacuna, 46 



Laevulose, 286 



Lamellse (see Bone) 



Laminitis, 253 



Langerhans, islets of, 300, 601 



Lanolins, 585 



Large intestine, 296, 334 



Laryngoscope, 552 



Larynx, cartilages of, 550 



centre, 552 



ligaments of, 550 



mucous inembrane of, 551 



muscles of, 551 



nervous mechanism of, 552 



position in deglutition, 307 



structure of, 550 

 Latent period of muscle, 216 



time of reflex action, 83 

 Lateral fillet, 172 

 Lecithin, 19 



Leg, horse's conformation of, 235 

 Lens, capsule, 141 



crystalline, 141 



l^hysiological, 145 

 Lenticular nucleus {see Cerebrum) 

 Leucin, 17 

 Leucoblasts, 500 

 Leucocytes, 483 



fate of, 503 



phagocytic action, 484 



source of, 499 

 Leucocytosis digestion, 348 

 Leuwenhoek, 2 

 Levers, 231 

 Leydig's cells, 606 

 Lieberkiihn's follicles, 295 

 Life, 5 



Ligaments, 40 

 Linin network, 27 

 Lipase, 321, 328 

 Lipoids, 19 

 Liquor folliculi, 619 



sanguinis, 474 

 Live weight test, 369 

 Liver, 299 



circulation in, 353 



development of, 353 



formation of urea in, 359 



glycogenic function, 353 



regulator of sui:)ply to niuscles, 

 353 



relation to fats, 358 



relation to general metabolism, 

 353 et seq. 



relation to proteins, 359 



storage of carbohydrates, 354 

 Living matter, essentials of, 5 

 Lobus pyriformis (see Smell) 

 Loudness of sounds, 553 



