Notes on physiology / by Henry Ashby.

  • Henry Ashby
Date:
1889
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Credit: Notes on physiology / by Henry Ashby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. Lining Bony Grooves^ serving to deepen and render smooth the grooves in which certain tendons work, as the tendons of the peronei, extensors of the thumb. Also forming the sesamoid cartilages developed in several tendons. Yellow elastic Fibro-cartilage differs from hyaline in having its matrix pervaded with yellow elastic tissue. It is tougher, more flexible and elastic than the hyaline variety. Microscopical examination Fig. 19.—Elastic cartilage of ear (Quain's Anatomy). of the epiglottis shows a fine network of elastic fibres, with numerous cartilage-cells scattered through its substance. In the external ear the network of elastic fibres is coarser (fig. 19). It forms the Eustachian tube, external ear, epiglottis, and cornicula laryngis. D 2
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