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CONNECTIVE TISSUE. 



around these the bone is arranged in rings, lamellce ; between 

 these are spaces, lacunce, in which are bone-corpuscles (Fig. 34). 

 Each canal is connected with the lacunae which are concentric 



- 1 Outer circum- 

 ferential 

 f lamellae. 



Haversian or 

 concentric 

 lamellae. 



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r --^-^'^^*t~"ffi-- Interstitial 

 ~ - t t L3 * * * lamellae. 



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 - ^^ ^ 



Af/'.-m 



Inner circum- 

 ferential 

 lamellae. 



FIG. 33. Segment of a transversely ground section from the shaft of a long 

 bone, showing all the lamellar systems ; metacarpus of man ; X 56 (Bohrn and 

 Davidoff). 



with it, and the lacunae with one another by means of fine canals, 

 canaliculi, into which project processes of the bone-corpuscles. 

 A Haversian canal (Fig. 34) with its lamellae, lacunae, bone- 



