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at each end. By these it adheres to those on each side of 

 it ; or, if it lies at the end of a series, to the tendon. 



The structure and properties of striated muscular tissue 

 in the histological sense means the structure and properties 

 of these fibres. 



As we have already had occasion to remark, all tissues 

 undergo considerable alteration in passing from the living 



Capillaries of Striated Muscle. 



A. Seen longitudinally. The width of the meshes corresponds to that of 

 an ultimate fibre, a, small artery ; 6, small vein. 



B. Transverse section of striated muscle, a, the cut ends of the ulti- 

 mate fibres ; 6, capillaries filled with injection material ; c, parts where 

 the capillaries are absent or not filled. 



to the dead state, but, in the case of muscle, the changes 

 which the tissue undergoes in dying, are of such a marked 

 character that the structure of the dead tissue gives a false 

 notion of that of the living tissue. 



A living striated muscular fibre of a frog or a mammal 

 is a pale transparent rod composed of a soft, flexible, 

 elastic substance, the lateral contours of which, when the 



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