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LECTURE Y. 



may be traced into filaments or point-like orifices. 

 The individual cells, therefore, come to be more widely 



FIG. 38. 



separated, and it becomes more and more difficult to 

 obtain a view of the whole of a cell at once. Besides, 

 we must first obtain a clear notion of the relation be- 

 tween a longitudinal and a transverse section. Where, 

 namely, in a longitudinal section, there are spindle- 

 shaped cells, in a transverse section will be seen stellate 

 ones, and to the network of cells displayed in the trans- 

 verse section corresponds the regular succession of 

 spindle-shaped corpuscles, arranged in rows which we 

 see in a longitudiual section, entirely in correspondence 

 with the plan which we have shown to be followed in 

 connective tissue. The cells, therefore, are here also 

 only apparently simply spindle-shaped, when an exactly 

 longitudinal section is examined ; but if it has been 



FIG. 38. Transverse section from the interior of the tendo Achillis of a new-born 

 child, a. The intervening mass which separates the secondary fasciculi (corres- 

 ponding to Fig. 37, c), and entirely composed of densely aggregated spindle-shaped 

 cells. Directly anastomosing with these, we see on both sides at b, b, reticulating 

 and spindle-shaped cells running into the interior of the fasciculi. 300 diameters. 



