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PRACTICAL MICROSCOPY. 



(H.) Fig. 101. 



1. The capillary plexus, forming ovate or elongate meshes. 



2. The compressed globular cells of the parenchyma. (Note 



that the cells are small in the small compartments, as though crowded. 

 This is due, in a measure, to the contraction of the tissue from the 

 rapid hardening. ) 



. SAME SECTION AS FIG. 100, MORE HIGHLY AMPLIFIED. REGION MIDWAY BETWEEN THE 

 FIBROUS INVESTMENT AND THE CENTRE OF THE LEAFLET, x 400. 



A. Blood capillaries, arising from the arteries seen in the preceding illustration; and ramify 

 ing in the connective-tissue framework. 



B. Compartments lobules formed by delicate connective-tissue prolongations from the 

 fibrous capsule. 



C. Lobular parenchyma. These large somewhat rounded cells are generally mono-nucleated, 

 contain fat globules, and are frequently pigmented. 



3. The minute fat globules in the parenchyma. (This I believe 

 to be physiological, and not unlike the fat storing observed in the 

 parenchyma of the liver.) 



4. Yellow pigment granules in the parenchyma. 



