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connective tissue corpuscles, but by degrees minute 

 granules and droplets of fat appear in the cell-substance, 

 increase in numbers, distend the body of the cell, and 



Fio. 185.— Adipose Tissue. 



Five fat cells, held together by bundles of connective tissue /. m, the 

 membrane or envelope of the fat cell ; n, the nucleus, and p, the remains 

 of the protoplasm pushed aside by the large oil drop a. Magnified 200 

 diameters. 



take the place of the cell-substance, 

 cell becomes a spheroidal sac full 

 nucleus pushed to one side (Fig. 185). 



Thus finally each 

 of fat, with the 



