Typical fare during the Civil War was very basic. Union soldiers were fed pork or beef, usually salted and boiled to extend the shelf life, coffee, sugar, salt, vinegar, and sometimes dried fruits and vegetables if they were in season.
varus - a deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an abnormal degree. deformity, malformation, misshapenness - an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed. valgus - a deformity in which there is an abnormal displacement of part of a limb away from the midline of the body.
[L.] bent inward; denoting a deformity in which the angulation of the part is toward the midline of the body, as in coxa vara, genu varum. varus stress test. adduction of the tibia while the femur is in a fixed position tests the integrity of the lateral collateral ligaments of the stifle.