Part 184

VENTRIC´ULUS BULBO´SUS, n. Same as gigerium.

VENTRIC´ULUS SUCCENTURIA´TUS, n. Same as proventriculus.

VERMICULA´TION, n. Very fine crosswise marking.

VER´MIFORM, a. Shaped like a worm; as, a woodpecker’s tongue. LUMBRICIFORM is the same.

VER´NAL, a. Relating to the spring.

VERRU´COUS, a. Warty.

VER´SATILE, n. Reversible; susceptible of turning either way.

VERTEBRA, n.; pl. vertebræ. Any bone of the spine; any one of the backbones.

VER´TEBRAL, a. Pertaining to the backbone.

VERTEBRARTE´RIAL (canal), a. for n. Passage for an artery through several cervical vertebræ.

VER´TEBRATE, a. Having a backbone; also, used substantively for an animal with a backbone.

VER´TEX, n. Crown; highest central portion of pileus.

VESCIC´ULA SEMINA´LIS, n. A structure, imperfect or wanting in birds, for storage of semen.

VESTI´TUS, a. or n. Clothed, i.e. feathered. Clothing, i.e. plumage; as, vestitus nuptialis, breeding plumage.

VEXIL´LUM, n. Rhachis and web of a feather taken together; all of a feather excepting calamus.

VIBRIS´SA, n.; pl. vibrissæ. Bristly or bristle-tipped feather about the mouth of a bird.

VIC´TUS, n. Food; diet.

VIL´LI, n. pl. Soft papulous projections of membrane.

VIS´CERAL, a. Pertaining to the viscera.

VIS´CUS, n.; pl. viscera. Any interior organ of the body, but especially of the digestive system. The stomach is a viscus; the intestines are viscera.

VI´SUS, n. Vision; eyesight.

VI´TELLINE, a. Pertaining to the vitellus.

VI´TELLINE MEM´BRANE, n. An envelope of the vitellus.

VITEL´LUS, n. YOLK (which see).

VIT´REOUS, a. Glassy; said of the humor in the back chamber of the eye.

VIT´TA, n. Broad band of color.

VO´MER, n. A bone of the skull, lying at the base, in the median line, in advance of the sphenoid. Also, the peculiarly shaped and enlarged last bone of the tail, or pygostyle.

WASHED, a. As if overlaid with a thin layer of different color.