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closing nucleated and micleolated cells, mostly epithelial in 

 character. These cells generally line the interior of the vesicle 

 and nearly fill its cavity, so that on section the vesicle looks 

 somewhat like an acinus of the pancreas. In the centre there 

 is often a branched nucleated corpuscle connected with a simi- 

 lar cell on one or the other side (Klein). The cells vary much 

 in size. In the connective tissue around the vesicles are lym. 

 phatic spaces and blood-vessels. 



The posterior lobe is smaller, darker, and more vascular 

 than the anterior. During foetal, and perhaps infant life, it 

 has a cavity in its interior lined with ciliated epithelium and 

 connected by the infundibulum with the third ventricle. 



Development. The pituitary body is formed by a diverticu- 

 lum from the future mouth (buccal epiblast), which projects 

 up to be transformed eventually into the anterior lobe ; and 

 another diverticulum from the wall of the vesicle of the third 

 ventricle, which projects down to form the posterior lobe 

 (Quain). Epiblastic arid mesoblastic tissue are thus united in 

 the organ. The posterior lobe retains its nervous elements in 

 the lower animals, but in man contains little besides connective 

 tissue and blood-vessels. 



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