INTRALOBULAR CAPILLARIES. 



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Hum-cells, which often contain granules and fat-particles. 

 Differences as to granularity, etc., occur in the appearance of 

 these cells in the various stages of digestion, as between fast- 

 ing periods and after eating. The liver-cells fill the acini in 

 a mass interrupted only by the radiating blood- capillaries and 



FIG. 58. 



Vessels and bile-ducts of hepatic lobule (Cadiat). a, intralobular vein; 6, inter- 

 lobular veins, breaking up into intralobular capillaries : c, bile-duct with bile- 

 capillaries (shown only at periphery of lobule). 



the bile-passages. They are in contact with one another, and 

 are not intermingled with connective tissue. 



The intralobular veins, the ultimate radicles of the hepatic 

 veins, occupy the centre or axis of the lobules. 



The intralobular capillaries converge toward the intralobular 

 vein from the periphery of the lobule, where they are formed 

 by the breaking up of the intfrlobvlor or portal veins; in 

 section they appear as conspicuous empty spaces or channels 



