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DETAILED SYNTHESIS. 



SECTION IV. 

 Sinewy Tissues. 



145. SINEWY TISSUE EXISTS in the form of minute 

 threads or fibres, and hence is usually called fibrous tis- 

 sue ; but as other tissues assume a fibrous structure, and 

 as the character of sinews which are composed of this 

 tissue is well known, the above name is much the best. 



146. SINEWY TISSUE is CONSIDERED under two heads, 

 that of the white or inelastic, and the yellow or elastic. 



147. WHITE SINEWY TISSUE gathers its fibres into 

 small bundles, or into bands more or less extended, the 

 fibres of which adhere so closely that it is difficult to 

 separate them. They are exceedingly strong, flexible, 

 and inelastic, and therefore well adapted for use in dif- 

 ferent parts of the Body, which is, in fact, largely com- 

 posed of them, arranged in various forms or textures. 



FIG. 141. 

 FIG. 140. 



Fig. 140 represents a portion of Sinewy Tissue with its fibres pulled apart ; 

 Fig. 141, the same, surrounding spaces from which the natural contents have 

 been dissolved. In both figures the tissue is very much magnified. 



145 How does ? 

 Fig 111 



146. How? 147. What said ? Describe Fig. 140. 



