FIBEOUS TISSUE. 



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larger bundles, which give the fibrous appearance to the tissue. The 

 bundles are constantly uniting with one another in their course, although 

 their component fibres remain perfectly distinct. 



The interspaces between the larger bundles are occupied by areolar 

 tissue (fig. 50) in which the blood-vessels and lymphatics of the fibrous^ 



FIG. 50. PART OF A LARGE TENDON IN TRANSVERSE SECTION. (Moderately magnified.) 



a, areolar sheath of the tendon, with the fibres for the most part running transversely, but 

 with two or three longitudinal bundles, 6 ; I, lymphatic cleft in the sheath ; immediately 

 over it a blood-vessel is seen cut across, and on the other side of the figure a small artery 

 is shown cut longitudinally ; c, large septum of areolar tissue ; d, smaller septum ; e, still 

 smaller septum. The irregularly stellate bodies are the tendon-cells in section. 



tissue are conveyed. The interstices between the smallest bundles are 

 occupied by rows of lamellar connective-tissue corpuscles (tendon-cells), 





FIG. 51. TENDON OF MOUSE'S TAIL; SHOWING CHAINS OF CELLS BETWEEN THE 

 TENDON-BUNDLES. (175 diameters.) 



whichMrom being squeezed up between three or more bundles become 

 flattenedjout in two or three directions. In transverse section the cells 

 appear somewhat stellate (figs. 50, 52), but when seen on the flat they 



