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Title: Hand-book of physiology
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Baker, W. Morrant, (William Morrant), 1839-1896 Harris, Vincent Dormer Kirkes, William Senhouse, 1823-1864. Hand-book of physiology. 13th ed
Subjects: Physiology Human physiology
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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eoli, form a muchcloser arrangement of the gland tissue than in the cortex ; spaces(fig. 271, b), are left within those anastomosing cords, in whichare found portions of the trabecular meshwork and the continua-tion of the lymph sinus. The essential structure of lymphatic-gland substance resemblesthat which was described as existing, in a simple form, in theinterior of the solitary and agminated intestinal follicles. The lymph enters the gland by several afferent vessels, whichopen beneath the capsule into the lymph-channel or lymph-path -at the same time they lay aside all their coats except the endo- CH. IX.) THE LYMPH AND CHYLE. 407 thelial lining, which is continuous with the lining of the lymph-path. The efferent vessels begin in the medullary part of thegland, and are continuous with the lymph-path here as theafferent vessels were with the cortical portion ; the endotheliumof one is continuous with that of the other. The efferent vessels leave the gland at the hilus, the more or
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Fig. 271.—A small portion of medullary substance from a mesenteric gland of the ox, d, d,trabeeulee ; a, part of a cord of glandular substances from which all but a few of thelymph-corpuscles have been washed out to show its supporting meshwork of retiformtissue and its capillary blood-vessels (which have been injected, and are dark in thefigure); i, i, lymph-sinus, of which the retiform tissue is represented only at c, c.X 300. (Kolliker.) less concave inner side of the gland, and generally either at onceor very soon after join together to form a single vessel. Blood-vessels which enter and leave the gland at the hilus arefreely distributed to the trabecular tissue and to the gland-pulp. The Lymph and Chyle. Lymph is, under ordinary circumstances, a c&ear, transparent,and yellowish fluid, of a specific gravity varying from 1 o 12—1022.It is devoid of smell, is slightly alkaline, and has a saline taste.As seen with the microscope in the small transparent vessels ofthe tail of

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