Handbook of physiology / by William Senhouse Kirkes.

  • William Senhouse Kirkes
Date:
1856
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    Lamina spiralis, 587. use of, 604. Lamina; dorsales, 663. viscerales or ventniles, 666. Large intestine, glands in, 249. Larynx, construction of, 526-7. vocal ligaments of, 527. ventricles of, 536. actions of muscles of, 528. irritation referred to, 402. Laryngeal nerves, 482. Lateral tracts, 427. Layer, still, of blood in capillaries, 132. Lens, crystalline, see Crystalline lens. Lenticular ganglion, relation of third nerve to, 459. Leucine, and sugar of gelatine, 12. Levator palpebra; superioris, nerve supplying, 459. Lieberki'ihn's glands, 243. Life, state of, 32. the phenomena, 1. dependence on medulla oblongata, 431. natural term of, for each particle, 302. 307. Lightning, condition of blood in per- sons killed by, 49. Lime, salts of, in human body, 22. phosphate of, in albumen, 14. in blood, 63. in tissues, 22. in bones and teeth, 21. Lingual branch of fifth nerve, 468. Liquor sanguinis, 39, 41. coagulation of, 51. lymph derived from, 282. Liver, vessels of, 252. ducts of, 253. cells of, ih. general purposes of, ib. secretion of, 256. process of secretion by, 260. purposes of secretion of, 262, (see also Bile), formation of sugar by, 269. circulation in, 80. development of, 703. ill the fietus, 262. a blood-making organ, ih. note. its vcs.sels filled with yelk, ib. note. Living bodies, properties of, 32. Lobules of lungs, 153. Locus iiigcr, 445. Loops, capillary, 127. terminal, of nerves, 383. Love, physical, cerebellum in rela- tion to, 441. Lungs, their structure, 153. lobules of, ib. intercellular passages in, 154. their cells, 154-6. their capillaries, 155. their elasticity, 159. circulation in, 80. pressure of blood in, 124. enlargement in inspiration, 157. development of, 704. Luteum corpus, see Corpus luteum Lymph, its general characters, 284. its corpuscles, ib. analysis of, 285. comparison with chyle, ib. with blood, 286. relation to blood, 282. organization of, 43. quantity formed, 286. effused in inflammation, 43. corpuscles, structure of, 70. in blood, 52. development into blood-corpus- cles, 71, 73. movement in capillaries, 132. weighed with fibrine, 57. Lymphatics, their distribution, 280. origin of, ib. parts in which not found, ib. communication with blood-ves- vels, 281. substances absorbed by, 281, 295. Lymphatic vessels, 287. their structure, ih. valves, ih. propulsion of lymph by, 288. contraction of, ib. hearts, 289. structure and action, 290. relation of, to spinal cord, ib 224. glands, 290. their structure, 290-1.