34 



ELEMENTS OF HISTOLOGY. 



[Chap. V. 



tissue. Between these groups are wider or narrower 

 channels the interfascicular spaces running parallel 

 with the long axis of the tendon (Fig. 2 SB). The cells 

 in each row are separated from one another by a narrow 

 line of albuminous cement substance, and the round 

 nucleus of the cell is generally situated at one end, in 



such a way that in two 

 adjacent cells of the grow- 

 ing tendon the nuclei 

 face each other. This 

 indicates that the indi- 

 vidual cells undergo divi- 

 sion. Corresponding to 

 the margin of each row, 

 the cells possess minute 

 processes. The cell plate 

 is not quite flat, but pos- 

 sessed of one, two, or even 

 three membranous projec- 

 tions, by which it is 

 wedged in between the 



Fig. 23A.-From a Tendon of Tail individual bundles of the 

 of Mouse, showing the Tend-n TOUD to which the TOW 

 cells. (The tendon is viewed in f 1 1 r i 



the long axis). of cells belongs. 



39. (6) In the serous 

 membranes, cornea, subcu- 

 taneous tissue, and loose 

 connective tissues, the cells are flattened transparent 

 corpuscles, each with an oblong flattened nucleus, and 

 more or less branched and connected by their processes. 

 In the cornea they are spoken of as the comeal cor- 

 puscles, and are very richly branched (Fig. 25). They 

 are situated between the lamellae of fibrous bundles of 

 which the ground substance of the cornea consists. 



These corpuscles are also situated in the interfasci- 

 cular spaces, or spaces left between the bundles of the 

 fibrous matrix, which are cavities in the interstitial 



a, The tendon rells seen from their 

 broad surface ; 6, the same seen side- 

 ways. (Handbook.) 



