

NERVOUS SYSTEM 



i8 7 



FIG. 101. Nerve cell and striate muscle fibre. A, Nerve cell; g, the body of 

 the cell a ganglionic cell; d, dendron or dendritic process; a.x., axis cylinder 

 process or nerve fibre. At n.f. the fibre is covered by a medullary sheath; 

 n.m., the ending of the nerve fibre on a muscle fibre. D, Part of nerve fibre 

 highly magnified; a, axis cylinder; m, medullary sheath; s, sheath of Schwann; 

 n, node; m.f muscle fibre; /, muscle fibril. B, Muscle fibril highly magnified; 

 C, the same in contracted condition. (From Galloway.) 



