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Title: Quain's elements of anatomy
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Quain, Jones, 1796-1865 Thomson, Allen, 1809-1884 Sharpey-Schäfer, E. A. (Edward Albert), Sir, 1850-1935, ed Thane, George Dancer, 1850-1930
Subjects: Human anatomy Anatomy
Publisher: New York : William Wood and co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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lly only traces of it remain at that time, and theseare rarely discoverable beyond the twenty-fifth or thirtieth year. Structure.—The lateral lobes of the thymus gland are each investedby a thin capsule of areolar tissue, which sends partitions into the glandbetween the lobules : on its outer surface the capsule is covered by alayer of flattened cells. Each lobe consists of numerous polyhedrallobules, connected by a more delicate intervening areolar tissue. Theseprimary lobules are made up of a number of small nodules or follicles(fig. 464, i, l), one to two millimetres in diameter. Each follicle 542 THE THY^irS GLAXD. is composed of a central part or medulla, and an external larger part orcortex. The cortex is in many respects similar in structnre to an ordi-nary lymphoid foUiele, such as those of the tonsils or of Peyers patchesin the intestine : consisting, hke these, of retiform tissue composed of anetwork of branched cells, and of a fine reticulum (Watney), the meshes Pig. 463.
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Fig. 463.—The THTiirs rs a child of six jioxths (Sappey). A. Situation, form and relations of the gland. 1, right lobe; 2, left lobe ; 3, medianfurrow ; 4, lung, somewhat everted ; 5, internal mammary rein ; 6, thyroid body;7, 8, inferior thyroid veins, mesial and lateral ; 9, common carotid artery; 10, internaljugular vein; 11, pneumogastric nerve. B. Right lobe of the thymus after removal ofits envelope ; 1, its apex ; 2, its base ; 3, thin outer border; 4, thick inner border,C. The gland unravelled, showing the lobules grouped around a central cord ; 4, thecentral cord or strand of connective tissue, connecting the lobules. of both being filled -with lymphoid cells (thymus corpuscles); at the sur-face of the follicle the retiform tissue is somewhat closer, so as to form aspecies of capsule for it. In some animals these capsules completely enclosethe follicles, but in others, including man, several follicles may be imitedtowards the centre of the lobule, Avhich is then commonly of

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