INDEX 



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Umbrella (of medusa), 39, 40 

 United States, malnutrition in, 83, 84 

 Urinary analysis, 140 

 Urinary tract (see also Kidney), 370-388 

 bladder, 371, 376, 378, 386, 387, 388, 



464, 465, 46S, 477 

 partial inanition, 370-371, 384-388 

 aqueous inanition (thirst), 370, 387- 



388 

 malnutritional edema, 384-385 

 pellagra, 370, 385 

 rickets, 385 

 vitamin A, 385 



B (beriberi), 385-386 

 C (scurvy), 371, 386 

 summary of effects on, 370-371 

 total inanition, 370, 371-384 

 animal, 375-384 

 functional changes, hibernation, 383- 



384 

 human adult, 370, 371-373 

 infant, 370, 373~375 

 ureters, 371, 387 

 urethra, 371, 376, 400 

 Urine, changes in, 256, 371, 373, 374, 376, 



378, 383. 384, 385, 386 

 Urochorda (Tunicata), 66 

 Ustilagineae, 4 



Uterus (see also Gonads, Reproductive tract) 

 amenorrhea, 399, 400 

 animal, 400, 401 

 human, 399, 400 

 partial inanition, 401-402 

 aqueous inanition, 401-402 

 malnutritional edema, 401 

 pellagra, 401 

 vitamin A, 401 

 B, 401 



"X," 390, 401 

 recovery on refeeding, 401 

 size or weight, 400, 401, 402, 464, 465, 



475 

 structural changes, congestion, 401 

 estrus cycle, 401 

 fatty degeneration, 401 

 fibrosis, 401 

 glands, 400 

 hemorrhages, 401 

 inflammatory lesions, 401 

 menorrhagia, 400 

 mitoses, 400 

 musculature, 400 

 myoma, 400 



placentation and factor "X," 401 

 prolapse, 400 



Uterus, structural changes, resorption of ova, 

 401 

 softening, 400 

 summary of effects on, 390 



Vacuoles, contractile, 20, 21 



Vanessa, 63 



Variability, human, 72, 87, in, 128, 156, 183, 

 273. 2 75, 276, 304, 324, 330, 332, 

 3 6 7, 373, 384, 39i, 392, 395 

 invertebrate, 17, 22, 27, 62, 63 

 plant, 4 



vertebrate, 96, in, 117, 119, 134, 135, 

 154, 156, 162, 212, 218, 233, 238, 

 249, 252, 269, 297, 361, 370, 377, 

 396, 403, 417, 438, 457, 458, 459, 460 



Vasa deferentia, 42, 41(1 



Vaucheria, 8, 9 



Vegetable diet, 102 



Vermiform appendix, lymphoid atrophy in, 

 266 

 regenerative mitosis in, 266 



Vertebral column (see under Skeleton) 



Vespa (wasp), 65 



Vespertilio (bat), 198, 231, 383 



Vesperugo (bat), 231, 321, 383 



Vetches, winter, 3 



"Vicious circle," 157, 290, 300, 301 



Vipera, 69 



Visceral group, weight, 467, 471, 472, 473, 



474, 475 

 Visual apparatus (see also Conjunctiva, Eye- 

 ball, Lacrimal glands, Xerophthal- 

 mia), 210-21 1 



exophthalmos, 221 



eye muscles, 214 



eyelids, 211, 214 



hemeralopia (day blindness), 210, 215 

 221 



malnutrition and visual disorders, 221, 

 220 



nerves, ciliary and optic, 214 



nictitating membrane, 219 



nyctalopia (night blindness), 210, 215, 

 221 



ophthalmia, 210 



orbital contents, 210, 211, 213, 216 



partial inanition, 210, 215, 221 

 scurvy, 220-221 

 vitamin A, deficiency, 211 

 recovery on refeeding, 211 



summary of effects on, 210-21 1 



total inanition, 210, 211-215 

 Vitamin, antirachitic (fourth), 107, no, 131, 

 133, 148, 150 



