INDEX 



669 



Phosphonxs-containing bodies in 



the urine, 565 

 Phototaxis, 26 

 Phrenic nerves, 527 

 Physiology, growth of, 1 



study of, 3 

 Pigment, blood {see Haemoglobin) 



cells, 43 

 Pigments of the bile, 324 



of the urine, 566 

 Pitch of sounds, 174, 553 

 Pituitary, 599 

 Placenta, 628 

 Plantar cushion, 233 

 Plasma, 479 

 Plasmodia, 11 

 Plasmolysis, 21 

 Platelets, blood, 484 

 Plethysmograph, 452 

 Pleura, complemental, 518 

 Pleural cavity, 515 

 Plexus, Auerbach's (see Auerbach) 



Meissner's {see Meissner) 



terminal, 55 

 Pneuma, 1 



Polar excitation, law of, 64 

 Polycrotic pulse (see Pulse) 

 Polymorph o-nuclear leucocytes, 483 

 Polypeptides, 19 

 Polysaccharids, 287 

 Portal circulation, 353 

 Positive accommodation, 147 et seq. 



accommodation, varying power 

 of, 149 

 Posterior columns of spinal cord 

 (see Spinal cord) 



ganglion reflex, 93 



grey commissure (s«e Spinalcord) 



roots, ganglia of, 107 

 Posture on circulation, 471 

 Potassium in food-stutfs, 289 

 Potatoes, composition, 290 

 Precipitins, 614 

 Predicrotic wave, 441 

 Preformed sulphate in urine, 563 

 Pregnancy, course of, 608 



metabolism, 631 

 Prepyloric sphincter, 295 

 Presbyopia, 149 

 Presphygmic period, 404 

 Pressure, arterial, 447 et seq. 



arterial, factors controlling, 450 



blood, 432 



in capillaries, 460 



in lymphatics, 464 



intracardiac, 399 



Pressure, variations in, due to 

 respiration, 446 



venou?, 463 

 Primitive nerve sheath, 56 

 Private path, 87 



Production of heat (in muscle), 268 

 Propionic acid {see Appendix 1.) 

 Proprioceptive receptors, 96 

 Prostate gland, 621 

 Protamine, 17 



Proteates {see Appendix II.) 

 Protein, absorption of, 347 



chemistry of, 15 



classification of (see Appendix 

 II.) 



conversion into fat, 352 



determination of amount oxi- 

 dised, 257 



disintegration of, 16 



energy value of, 257 



in food, 283 



metabolism of, 257 et seq., 554 



native {see Appendix II.) 



physical characters, 14 



products of, 15 



regulation of supply 359 

 Protein, requirements, 370 



storage of, 352 



synthesis of, 18 



vegetable, 284 

 Proteins, 15 (see Appendix II.) 

 Proteolytic period of gastric diges- 

 tion, 311 

 Proteoses, 311 

 Prothrombin, 477 

 Protoplasm, 5 



chemistry of, 12 



liberation of energy by, 7 



metabolism of, 9 



structure, 11 

 Protoplasmic activity, 5, 21 

 Proto-proteoses, 312 

 Pseudoglobulin, 480 

 Pseudopodia, 24 

 Ptvalin, 302 

 Puberty, 618 

 Pulmonarv area, 407 



valve', 392 

 Pulmonic heart {see Heart, pul- 

 monic), 383 

 Pulse, anacrotic, 442 



arterial, 434 



capillary, 444 



characters of wave, 436 



dicrotic, 440 



form of wave, 438 



