602 INDEX 



Veins, no pulse in, 60, 61 



valves in, 35, 36, 85, 166 

 Veins, azygos, 41 

 cerebral, 35 

 coronary, 40, 48 

 hepatic, 38, 40, 209, 210, 217 

 innominate, 87 

 interlobular, 211 

 intralobular, 209, 212 

 jugular, 43, 87 



portal, 35, 40, 210, 211, 217, 247 

 pulmonary, 35, 38, 41 

 splenic, 221 

 subclavian, 87 

 Veinlet, intralobular, 212 

 Velum (a curtain), the, 229 



interpositum, of brain, 509 

 Vena cava (the empty vein), inferior, 38-40, 208, 209, 212 



superior, 38, 87 

 Vena porta, see Portal circulation 

 Venous blood, dark colour of, 124 

 causes of_, 161 



effect of, on brain, 162 et seq. 

 pulse, 167 

 Ventilation, necessity of, 168, 564 



Ventricles (ventriculus, a little belly) of the brain, 502 et seq. 

 of the heart, 43, 52 



worii done by, 564 

 contraction of, 51 

 thickness of walls of, 55 

 Ventriloquism, effect of, due to suggestion, 443 

 Vermiform (vermis, a worm) appendix, 251 

 Vertebrae (.verto, I turn), bodies of, 9 



coalescence of, in sacrum and coccyx, 14 

 of neck, 323 

 Vertebral column, 15 



as example of imperfect joints, 316 

 Vesicle, germinal, 532 

 Vessels, muscular, 289 

 Vestibular nerve, 392 et seq., 523 

 Vestibule (or porch) of ear, 393 

 Vibrations, of cilia, 134 



in endolymph, 383 

 of ether, physical basis of light, 426 

 molecular, 382 



musical sounds, due to regularity of, 384 

 of the ossicles, 371 

 sensory organs affected by, 22 

 sonorous, 37), 379, 382 et seq. 

 of tympanic membrane, 371, 379 

 of vocal chords, 334 

 Vieussens, valve of, 504 

 Villi (villus, shaggy hair), structure of, 256 

 prolongation of the lacteals into, 86, 255 

 absorption by means of, 266, 267 

 Vision, conditions of, 398 



explanation of the singleness of, 415, 449 

 probable seat of end-organ of, 526 



