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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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Fig. ,534.—Transverse section of a lobule ofan injected infantile thymus gland.a, capsule of connective - tissue sur-rounding the lobule; b, membrane ofthe glandular vesicles; c, cavity of thelobule, from which the larger blood-vessels are seen to extend towards andramify in the spheroidal masses of thelobule, x 30. (Kolliker.) but to a less extent than the GLANDULAR METABOLISM. fCH. XII. sends in processes, forming trabecule, which divide the glandsinto lobes, and carry the blood and lymph-vessels. The largetrabecular branch into small ones, which divide the lobes into
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Fit 335.—Thymus of a calf, a, cortex of follicle; b, medulla; c, interfollicular tissue,magnified about twelve times. (Watney.) lobnles. The lobules are further subdivided into follicles by fineconnective tissue. A follicle (fig. 336) is seen on section to bemore or less polyhedral in shape, and consists of cortical andmedullary portions, both of which are,- • ,4:// composed of adenoid tissue, but in the ■%y,.:..^0A:., medullary portion the matrix is coarser, ^■;v,;-.;;;:.:;■./. :.:^W-v and is n°t so filled up with lymphoid i -. - corpuscles as in the cortex. The adenoid •• ..■I- tissue of the cortex, and to a less marked •■■•&y -*;. extent that of the medulla, consists of the two elements, one with small meshes$. >• formed of fine fibres with thickened nodal points, and the other enclosed within thefirst, composed of branched connectivetissue corpuscles (Watney). Scattered inthe adenoid tissue of the medulla are theconcentric corpuscles of Hassall, w

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