Buckmaster's Elements of animal physiology / by John Angell.

  • Angell, John
Date:
1866
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Credit: Buckmaster's Elements of animal physiology / by John Angell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. Abdomen, cavity of, 94; re- gions of, 95. Abdominal muscles, 86, 87 ; respiration, 209. Absorption, definition of, 13, 125. Acids, nature of, 82 —84. Acini of liver, 227 ; of salivary glands, 237. Action of the heart, 187. Adam’s apple, 286, 287. Adipose tissue, 333. Age, bones in old, 264 ; death from, 353. _ Air, composition of, 201; quan- tity respired, 213 ; why it passes into the hmgs, 214. Air-cells, 210, 213. Albumen, 24 ; composition of, 142. Alkalies, nature of, 84—86. Aluminium, 22. Alcohol not a supporter of animal heat, 160; increases the waste of the system, 160. Alimentary canal, 91 ; gases of, 122. Alveoli, 60. Amaurosis, 354. Ammonia in blood, 180, 183 ; in respired air, 200. Amoeba, 6. Amphiarthrosis, 281. Anastomosis of veins and ar- teries, 192. Anatomy, definition of, 8. Animals and plants contrasted, Animate beings, i. Aorta, 56, 184, 188, 189, 190, 191. Aqueous humour, 323, 326. Arachnoid membrane, 303,342. Areolar tissue, 331, 332. Arterial blood, 169 ; capacity for heat, 198 ; temperature of, 217. Arterial system, diagram of, 191. Arteries, 192 ; coats, 191 ; movement of blood in, 193 ; wounded, 193. Articulations or joints, 281, 282. Asphyxia, 216; cutaneous, 256; death from, 352. Atavism, 350. Atlas vertebra, 270. Auricles, 184, 186. Axis vertebra, 271. Azotized proximate principles, 23- Baldness, 260. Barley, 152. Basement membrane glands, 222 ; of skin, 252 ; descrip- tion of, 344. Beaumont, Dr., what he saw in the stomach, 72—74. Beer, 161, 166. Bicuspid teeth, 4I ; valve, 186. Bile, 119 ; properties of, 232 ; composition and functions, 233 ; a poison, 235. Biliary cells, 227.