674 



INDEX 



Urine, non-urea nitrogen in, 559 



pigments of, 566 



reaction, 557 

 Urobilin, 566 

 Urochrome, 566 

 Uroerythrin, 566 

 Uterus, 621 



nervous control, 633 

 Utricle, 118 



Vaccines, 615 

 Vagus, 200 



Valsalva sinus of (see Sinus of Val- 

 salva) 

 Valve action m reflexes, 84 



ileo-csecal, 334 

 Valves of the heart, 390, 402 



action of, 402 

 Valvular incompetence, 410 

 Vas deferens, 620 

 Vasa efferentia, 620 

 Vaso-constrictor centre, 457 



mechanism, 454 

 Vaso-dilator centres, 460 



mechanism, 458 

 Vegetable proteins, 284 

 Veins, 432 



pressure in, 463 



umbilical, 631 

 Velocity of blood, 465 

 Vena cava, inferior (foetal), 632 



cava, superior (foetal), 632 

 Venous pulse, 444 

 Ventilation, 548 



positive and negative, 533 

 Ventricles of the heart, 386 



left, 386 



muscular structure of, 387 



pressure in, 402 



right, 388 

 Vermis, superior, of cerebellum, 125 

 Vesicular sound, 525 

 Vestibular root of the eighth nerve, 



119 

 Vestibule of the ear, 117, 170 

 Villi, chorionic, 626 



of intestine, 295 



primitive, 624 

 Visceral muscle, 203, 215 



receptor mechanism, 97 

 Vision, 136 



binocular, 158 



colour, 155 



distant, 144 



double, 159 



Vision, field of, 152, 158 



glance, 160 



monocular, 144 

 Visual centre, 164 



sensation, duration of, 165 

 strength of, 165 



purple, 154 

 Vital capacity of the thorax, 523 

 Vitamines, 282 

 Vitreous humour, 140 

 Vocal cords, 550 

 Voice, 552 



physiology, 552 

 Volar aspect of hoof, 233 

 Voluntary contraction, nature of, 



230 

 Vomiting, 318 



in horse, 346 

 von Mohl, 3 



Wallerian degeneration, 76 

 Waste, rate of (during fasting), 



274 

 Water in feeding stuffs, 289 



soluble B, 281 

 Watering, 367 



Wave, characters of pulse (.see Pulse) 

 Weigert's method of nerve-staining, 



76 

 Weight estimation, 106 

 White cells of blood, 483 



fate of, 503 



source of, 499 

 White fibro-cartilage, 45 



line (hoof), 235 

 Wolff-Lehmann standards, 376 

 Work collector, 245 



done by muscle, 242 



muscular, effect on excreta, 

 262 



X-CHROMOSOMES, 617 



X-rays in the examination of the 

 stomach, 315 

 of the intestine, 333 



Yawning, 522 

 Yeast, 5 



Zein, 277 



Zona granulosa, 619 



pellucida, 619 

 Zymin, 7 (see also Enzymes) 



secreting epithelium, 36 

 Zymogen, 36 



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