886 



INDEX. 



Preganglionic fibers, 711 

 Pregnancy, 861 

 Prehension, 48 



of cow, 48 

 frog, 48 

 horse, 48 

 man, 48 

 squirrel, 48 

 Presbyopia, 796 



Pressure curve of ventricle, 240 

 Prostate gland, 858 

 Prooestrus, 860 

 Protamines, 38 

 Proteases, 62 

 Proteid compounds, 36 

 Proteids, 32, 33 



absorption of, 146 



chemical composition of, 31 



chromoproteids, 36 



classification of, 35 



heat value of, 500 



metabolism of, 477 



nucleoproteids, 36 



of muscle, 542 



where found, 35 

 Proteins, 35 

 Proteoses, 37, 134 

 Prothrombin, 202 

 Protoplasm, 8 



chemical composition, 9, 10 



constituents of, 10 



definition of, 8 



importance of, 19 



movements of, 14 



movements, rate of, 15 



specific gravity, 10 



Protoplasmic movement of leucocytes, 15 

 Proximate principles, 26 

 Ptyalin, 61 

 Pulmonary artery, pressure, 397 



action of drugs upon, 396 

 Pulse, 87 



dicrotic, 291 



factors necessary for, 288 



glass-blower's, 392 



qualities of, 288 



venous, 310 



Pulse, respiration, ratio, 248 

 Pupil, 780 



cause of dilatation of, 781 

 Purin, 447 

 Purkinje cells, 689 

 Purkinje-Sanson images, 798 

 Putamen, 652 



Putrid products of faeces, 130 

 Pyloric glands, 71 

 Pylorus, 69 



closure of, 74 

 Pyramidal tracts, 617, 618 

 Pyramids of kidney, 436 

 Pyrenin, 13 

 Pyrimidin bases, 33 

 Pyrrolidine, 32, 108 



QUICKENING, 861 



Quotient of gases, respiratory, 383 



RANVIER, nodes of, 603 

 Rarefied air, 395 

 Reaction of time, 710 



of light, 710 



of motor impulses, 710 



of sound, 710 



of touch, 710 

 Rectum, 132 

 Reduction division, 849 

 Referred sensations, 720 

 Reflex action, seat of, 671 



forms of, 678 



law of coordination, 673 



Reflex action, law of irradiation, 673 

 laws of, 673 

 localization, 673 

 other seats, 671 

 skin, 681 

 swiftness of, 673 

 tendon, 679 

 Reil, island of, 645 

 Reissner, membrane of, 755 

 Remak's ganglion, 251 

 Renal circulation, 440 



oncometer, 462 

 Rennin, 42, 77, 133 

 Reproduction, 841 



among higher animals, 842 



among lower animals, 842 



chorion, 856 



epiblast, 855 



fecundation, 849 



fertilization, 849 



fcetal circulation, 865 



hypoblast, 855 



menstruation, 858 



mesoblast, 855 



non-sexual, 842 



ovum, 847 



ovum, maturation of, 847 



parthenogenesis, 842 



placenta, 864 



segmentation, 849 



sexual reproduction, 842 



spermatozoon, 856 

 structure of, 856 

 Reserved air, 355 

 Residual air, 355 

 Resonance, 570 

 Respiration, 334 



abdominal type, 351 



action of drugs upon, 396 



air-passages, 338 



alveoli, 342 



apparatus, 337 



artificial, 375 



bronchi, 341 



carbon monoxide, 393 



center of, 364 



chemistry of, 379 



Cheyne-Stokes respiration, 377 



compressed air in, 394 



curious phenomena of, 364 



effect on blood-pressure, 361 



effect on circulation, 358 



effect on pulse, 361 



expiration, 350 



external, 337 



function of, 336, 337 



function of unstriped muscle of bron- 

 chi, 363 



gases in, 385, 393 



inferior costal type, 351 



internal, 337 



inspiration, 346 



lungs, 340 



lymphatics, 344 



mechanism of, 344 



modified movements of, 351, 37T 



nasal, 364 



nerves of, 344, 364 



number of, 356 



of different forma of life, 336 



of chick, 336 



of foetus, 336 



pathological, 364, 397 



pressure in, 357 



quotient of gases, 383 



relation to nervous system, 364 



rarefied air, 395 



sounds of, 352 



superior costal type, 351 



trachea, 338 



