ANATOMY IN A NUTSHELL. 



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roots above them. The last nerve roots have the appearance of a horse's 

 tail (cam la equina). 



The neuroglia consists of a homogenous transparent matrix of a network 

 of very (1) delicate fibrillar and of (2) small stellate or branched cells, the 

 neuroglia cells. Formerly it was considered connective tissue but neuroglia 



PLATE CLI. 



LESSER OMENTUM 



PARIETAL PERITONEUM 

 /ISCERAL PERITONEUM 



GREAT OMENTUM 



GREAT CAVITY OF PERITONEUM 



FORAMEN OF WINSLOW 

 SPINAL COLUMN 



KANCREAS 



OUOCENUM 



TRANSVERSE MESOCOLON 

 TRANSVERSE COLON 



THE MESSENTERY 



POUCH OF 

 (I (i L A S 



A Sagittal Section of the Trunk Showing the Peritoneum. 



is developed from the epiblast and connective tissue from mesoblast. In addi- 

 tion to forming a ground substance in which the nerve fibers, nerve cells, 

 and blood vessels are imbedded, a considerable accumulation of neuroglia takes 

 place in these situations; (1) ox the OUTER SURFACE OF the CORD, beneath the 

 pia mater, (2) around the central canal, and (3) i\ the anterior born. 

 The conus inedullaris is the coin-like termination of the cord, and this 



