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Non-nitrogenous bodies, 757 



food, 357 

 Normal temperature of animals, 374 

 Nostril, false, 115 

 Nostrils, 114 



Notation of paces of horse, 622 

 Notochord, 706 

 Nuclease, 765 

 Nuclein, 326, 754 

 Nucleo-albumin, 5 



protein, 4, 21, 754 

 Nucleus of cell, 438, 699 



segmentation, 704 

 Nutrient enemata, 222 

 Nutrition, 343 



albuminoids, nature of, 356, 754 

 anabolism, 57, 349 

 balance experiments, 346, 349, 

 366 

 of energy, 349, 366 

 of matter, 349, 366 

 body waste, cause of, 364, 365 

 carbohydrate food, 357, 358 



energy-producing, 358 

 ferments, 765 

 oxidation of, 1 1 8, 357, 



358, 364 

 respiratory quotient, 

 ii8, 357 

 carbon equilibrium, 356 

 composition of body, 343 

 fat, composition of, 358 

 depots, 357, 358, 359 

 differences in animals, 360 

 ferment, 359. See also 



Lipase, Fat 

 oxidation of, 357, 359, 364. 



764 

 source of, 249, 357. 358, 359 

 fattening of animals, 359, 361, 

 368 

 and castration, 360 

 food substances, oxidation of, 



364. 365 

 amount required, 366 

 energy from, 352, 356, 358, 



364, 405 

 energy, loss of , 3 6 5 , 3 66, 40 5 

 ferments, 765 

 hydrogen output, 345 

 income and expenditure, 344, 



346, 356 

 katabolism, 57, 349 

 metabolism, 349 

 methods of inquiry, 345 

 nitrogen output, 345, 350, 351, 

 354, 356 

 income, 351, 354 

 nitrogenous equilibrium, 350, 

 352, 354, 356 

 under starvation, 351 



Nutrition, nitrogenous equilibrium, 

 on protein diet, 352, 354 

 non-nitrogenous foods, 352, 357 

 spare protein, 352, 

 353, 358, 360 

 oxidations, 365, 372, 764 

 oxygen deficit, 357 

 pathological, 371 

 protein, an economiser of fat, 

 352 

 and work, 355 

 behaviour in body, 353, 



354 

 carbohydrate group in, 354 

 chemistry of, 752 

 circulating, 353 

 conversion into urea, 322, 

 323, 324. 353, 354, 

 365 

 into living tissue, 353, 



355, 356 

 energy not furnished by, 



352, 356 

 fat, formation from, 354, 



357, 359 

 ferments, 765 

 forms glycogen, 354, 357 

 its oxidation, 364, 365, 764 

 luxus consumption, 355 

 splitting, its method, 354, 



752 

 storage of, 355 

 tissue, 353 

 wasteful diets, 355 

 See also Proteins 

 salts of body, 360, 749 



their use, 360, 749 

 starvation, 351, 363, 573 

 storage of tissue, 361 

 thirst, 362. See also Thirst 

 water in tissues, 343, 362, 748 

 lost by tissues, 362 

 essential to digestion, 362 

 Nux vomica, absorption of, 281 



Oats, digestion of, 179 

 (Edema, 27 



(Esophageal groove, 194, 204 

 (Esophagus, 159 



liquids, passage of, 159 



nervous mechanism, 160 



solids, passage of, 159, 161 



structure, 159 

 (Estrus, 688 



cause of, 690 



duration, 689 



signs of, 690 



uterine changes during, 691 

 Oleic acid, 358, 757. See Fat 

 Olein, 358, 757 



