The Essential of histology

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Lea Brothers, 1907 - 507 pages
 

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Page 152 - The sweat-glands are abundant over the whole skin, but they are most numerous on the palm of the hand and on the sole of the foot. They are composed of coiled tubes, which lie in the deeper part of the integument and send their ducts up through the cutis to open on the surface by corkscrew-like channels which pierce the epidermis (fig.
Page 206 - B in a state of activity. a the inner granular zone, which in A is larger, and more closely studded with fine granules, than in B, in which the granules are fewer and coarser.
Page 151 - When the muscle contracts, the hair becomes more erect, and the follicle is dragged upwards so as to cause a prominence on the general surface of the skin, whilst the part of the corium from which the little muscle arises is correspondingly depressed ; the roughened condition known as ' goose skin
Page 21 - ... a hollow cell the nucleus of which has multiplied. The new nuclei are arranged around the wall of the cavity, the corpuscles in which have now become discoid ; c shows the mode of union of a
Page 150 - They are always found in the subcutaneous layer on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, and are most numerous on the palmar surfaces of the fingers and toes, particularly the third phalanges.
Page 261 - Of the fibres which enter the chiasma, those from the inner (or nasal) two-thirds of the retina cross to the optic tract of the opposite side, while the remaining third, comprising the fibres from the temporal part of the retina, pass along the lateral border of the chiasma to the tract of the same side. In the optic tract they are continued to the parts of the brain where they have their terminal...
Page 303 - ... glands). They appear to represent modified sweat-glands. The tympanum is lined by a mucous membrane which is continuous through the Eustachian tube with the mucous membrane of the pharynx ; it is also prolonged into the mastoid cells. The epithelium is columnar and ciliated in some parts, but in others — eg roof, promontory, ossicles, and membrana tympani — it is a pavement-epithelium. The membrana tympani is a thin membrane formed of fibrous bundles which radiate from the umbo.
Page 98 - A, part of a nerve-fibre in which degeneration has commenced in consequence of the section, fifty hours previously, of the trunk of the nerve higher up ; my, medullary sheath becoming broken up into drops of myelin ; p, granular protoplasmic substance which is replacing the myelin ; n, nucleus ; g, neurolemma.
Page 147 - It is thickest over the posterior aspect of the trunk, whereas the epidermis is thickest on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The...
Page 255 - A, trausverse section at the place of emergence of the nerve-fibres. B, oblique section carried along the course of the bundles from the nucleus of origin to the place of emergence. Aq, Sylvian aqueduct, with its surrounding grey matter ; IV, the nerve-bundles emerging ; IV', decussation of the nerves of the two sides ; IV...

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