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is not due to exhaustion of nutritive material. The persistence of the human 

 "sucking pad" (corpus adiposum buccae) during general emaciation has been 

 noted, not only during infancy (Ranke '84; Lehndorff '07; Scammon '19) but 





Fig. 47. — Normal adipose tissue, with large, polyhedral fat cells, from the tela subcutanea of 

 a newborn infant. X400. (Parrot '77.) 





Fig. 48. — Adipose tissue from the tela sub- 

 cutanea of an emaciated, athreptic infant. Adipose 

 cells unequally atrophied; some still contain a 

 moderate amount of fat in droplets of variable size. 

 Cell nuclei and granular cytoplasm evident. X400. 

 (Parrot '77.) 



Fig. 49. — Adipose tissue ' from the 

 tela subcutanea of an extremely emaci- 

 ated, athreptic infant. The atrophic 

 adipose cells have been almost completely 

 depleted of fat, and are closely packed so 

 as to resemble the Malpighian layer of 

 the epidermis. X400. (Parrot '77.) 



even in the adult (Gehewe '52). Beneke (05) stated that the cells of a lipoma 

 differ from ordinary fat cells in that they do not atrophy in general emaciation 

 of the body. In cases of malnutritional edema (due chiefly to partial inanition, 



