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Author Hoar, William Stewart, 1913-2006.

Title General and comparative physiology / William S. Hoar
Edition Second edition
Published Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1975

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Description xiv, 848 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Prentice-Hall biological science series
Prentice-Hall biological science series.
Contents 1. Sources of enery and its distribution -- 1. The origin of animals and their environment -- 2. Regulatory mechanisms -- 3. Nutrition -- 4. The exchange of gases -- 5. The internal fluid environment and its circulation -- 6. The vascular fluids -- 7. The transformation of energy -- 8. Excretion -- 2. Environmental relations -- 9. Physiological compensation for environmental variation -- 10. Temperature -- 11. Ionic and osmotic balance -- 12. The gaseous environment -- 13. Pressure and buoyancy -- 14. Light -- 3. Nervous integration and animal activity -- 15. Irritability -- 16. Receptor mechanisms -- 17. Reception of chemical, mechanical and thermal stimuli -- 18. Photoreception -- 19. Effector organs and the physiology of movement -- 20. Electrical discharge, light production and color changes -- 21. Nervous integration -- 4. Reproduction and development -- 22. Reproduction -- 23. Endocrine regulation of reproduction -- 24. Growth and development -- References -- Index
Bibliography Bibl.: pages 774-821. - Index
Subject Physiology, Comparative.
Physiology, Comparative.
LC no. 74017118
ISBN 0133502724