Buckmaster's Elements of animal physiology / by John Angell.

  • Angell, John
Date:
1866
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Credit: Buckmaster's Elements of animal physiology / by John Angell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    elastic, whitish substance, possessing but feeble sensi- bility ; it is slightly vascular, and consists of a network of bands of white and yellow fibrous tissue, containing numerous areola^ or spaces, from which it derives its name. It is very abundantly diffused through the body, forming the matrix of the skin, and connecting the vari- ous tissues and or- gans together, and, when condensed, forming sheaths or investing mem- branes, as the fascice of the muscles and the neurilemma of the nerves. It is sometimes termed cellular tissue. When treated with dilute acetic acid, numerous microscopic oval-shaped bodies, termed connective tissue corpuscles, are rendered visible. Fig. 87.—Areolar Tissue. Showing areol(z, or open spaces in dried tissue. Fig. 88.—Section of Cartilage. Showing intercellular iiiatrix, or blastema, and embedded nucleated cartilage cells. CartilagG. — Articular., or true cartilage, is an extensible, elastic, firm, flexible, tough, glistening,