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THE ORGANS 



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b 



are also found in the stomach glands which are apparently identical in 

 structure with those of the intestine (p. 265). ]\Iost of these resemble 

 the glands of Lieberkiihn and are distributed in small groups mainly 

 in the pylorus and lesser curvature. Glands resembling B runner's 

 glands have also been described. 



The STROMA (Figs. 156 and 160) or tunica propria, in which the 

 glands are embedded, consists of mixed fibrillar and reticular connective 



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Fig. 160. Fig. 161. 



Fig. 160. — Vertical Section through Mucous ^Membrane of Pyloric End of Stomach. 

 X85. (KoUiker.) Mg, Gastric pit; b, blood-vessel in stroma; d, longitudinal section 

 of body of gland; m, muscularis mucosae. 



Fig. 161. — Pyloric Gland from Vertical Section through Wall of Dog's Stomach. 

 (Ebstein.) m, Gastric pit in which are seen some transversely cut cells; n, neck of gland; 

 /, fundus cut transversely. 



tissue infiltrated with lymphoid cells. In the fundus of the stomach 

 the glands are so closely packed that the stroma is reduced to thin 

 strands, which pass up between the glands and also separate them 

 from the muscularis mucosae. In the pylorus the glands are more 

 widely separated and the stroma is correspondingly greater in amount. 



