On a peculiar form of elastic tissue found in the ligamentum nuchae of the giraffe / by John Quekett.
- John Thomas Quekett
- Date:
- [between 1850 and 1859]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On a peculiar form of elastic tissue found in the ligamentum nuchae of the giraffe / by John Quekett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![ON A PECULIAR FORM OF ELASTIC TISSUE FOUND IN THE LIGAMENTUM NUCH^ OF THE GIRAFFE. By JOHN QUEKETT, Esq., Assistant Conservator of the Museum, and Demonstrator of Minute Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. [From the ‘ Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London^ Vol, iii. page 45.] Two kinds of fibrous tissue, viz., the white and the yellow, are now familiar to most anatomists. They difier from each other in many respects, but chiefly in their ultimate structure, their physical pro- peities, and their colour; both are largely employed in the anhnal economy, but principally in those paris subservient to the functions of locomotion. The white fibrous tissue is (when perfectly cleared of the ai’eolar) of a silvery lustre, and is composed of bundles of fibres running for the most part in a parallel direction, but if there be more than one plane of fibres they often cross or interlace with each other; in some specimens it is difficult to make out the fibres distinctly except in certain Hghts, and in these cases it appears that this tissue may be composed of a longitudinally striated membrane, which may now and then spHt up into fibres. The white fibrous tissue is principally employed in the formation of hgaments and tendons, a purpose for which it is admirably fitted on account of its inelasticity; it also is concerned m the formation of fibrous membranes, viz., the pericardium, dura mater, periosteum, perichondrium, the sclerotic coat of the eye, and all the different fasciae. It is sparingly supplied with blood-vessels and nerves; the former always run in the areolar tissue connecting the bundles of fibres to- gether, but in the generality of the fibrous tissues the blood-vessels are not well seen except in the dura mater and in the periosteum.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2246251x_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
