Kirkes' handbook of physiology. / By W. Morrant Baker and Vincent Dormer Harris.

  • William Senhouse Kirkes
Date:
1888
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Credit: Kirkes' handbook of physiology. / By W. Morrant Baker and Vincent Dormer Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Vesicul-e Seminales. Vesiculiu seininales, 727 functions of, 739 structure, 727 Vestibule of the ear, 644 Vibrations, conveyance of to auditory nerve, 649 ctseq. Vidian nerve, 607 Villi in chorion, 759 in placenta, 764 Villi of intestines, 302 action in digestion, 304 Visceral arches, development of, 769 connection with cranial nerves, 770 lamina; or plates, 734 Visceral plates, 754 Viscero-inhibitory nerves, 711 motor, ib. Vision, 660 angle of, 691 at dift'erent distances, adaptation of eye to, 673 ct scq, centre, 597 corpora quadrigemina, the principal nerve-centres of, 568 coiTection of aberration, 681 et scq. of inversion of image, 688 defects of, 678 et scq. distinctness of, how secured, 677 et seq. duration of sensation in, 684 estimation of the form of objects, of their direction, 693 of their motion, 694 of their size, 692 field of, size of, 690 focal distance of, 677 impaired by lesion of fifth nerve, 606 influence of attention on, 694 modified by difl'eront parts of the retina, 726 purple, 688 single, with two eyes, 701 Visual direction, 693 Vital or respiratory capacity of chest, 209 Vital capillary force, 177 Vitellin, 833 Vitelline duct, 794 membrane, 743 spheres, ih. Vitiated air, effects of, 227 Vitreous humour, 671 Vocal cords, 497 cl scq. action of in respiratory actions, 209 ct scq. approximation of, effect on height of note, 507 longer in males than in females, 505 position of, how modified, 501 viljrations of, cause voice, 497 Voice, 504 of boys, 505 WoKK OF IIeaht. Voice—continued. . compass of, 506 conditions on which strength depends, human, produced by vibration of vocal cords, 505 in eunuchs, 505 influence of age on, ib. of arches of palate and uvula, 507 of epiglottis, 503 of sex, 504 of ventricles of larynx, 507 of vocal cords, ^04 in male and female, ib, cause of different pitch, ib, modulations of, ib. natural and falsetto, 506 peculiar characters of, 505 varieties of, 504 et seq. Vomiting, 295 action of stomach in, 296 centre, 562 nerve-actions in, 297 voluntary and acquired, ib. Vowels and consonants, 508 Vulvo-vagiual or Duverney's glands, 723 W. Walking, 481 Water, 846 absorbed by skin, 401 by stomach, 289 amount, in blood, variations in, lOO, 107 exhaled from lungs, 46 from skin, 399 forms large part of human body, 846 influence of on decomposition, 828 in urine, excretion of, 415 variations in, 41A loss of from body, 846 uses, ib. quantity in various tissues, ib, source, ib, vapour of in atmosphere, 216 Wave of blood causing the pulse, 153 velocity of, 156 White c()r])uscles, 156. Sec Blood-cor- puscles, white; and Lymph-ojr- puscles. AVhite fioro-cartilage, 48 fliirous tissue, 36 Willis, circle of, 184 AVollfinn bodies, 797 ct scq, Wookl ridge, 78 Work of heart, 145
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