Chap. XXXIV.] 



THE SKIN. 



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admixture of networks of elastic fibres. From the 

 surface of the coriura project small conical or cylin- 

 drical pajrillce. These are best developed in those 

 parts where the skin is thick, e.g., volar side of 

 hand and foot, scalp, lips of mouth, &c. Between 

 the surface of the coriuni and the epidermis there 

 is a basement membrane. Migratory cells, with and 



Fig. 145. Vertical Section through the Skin of Human Finger. 



a, Stratum corneum : 8, stratum luridnm : c, stratum Malpipbii : d, Meissner's, 

 or tactile corpuscles ; . blood-vessels cut across;/, a sudoriferous canal or 

 duct. 



without pigment granules in their interior, are 'met 

 with, especially in the superficial part of the corium ; 

 they, as well as the fixed or branched connective 

 tissue corpuscles (see par. 40), and other structures, as 

 vessels and nerves, lie in the interfascicular spaces. 



372. (3) The superficial part of the subcuta- 

 neous tissue insensibly merges into the deep part of 

 the corium ; it consists of bundles of fibrous connective 

 tissue aggregated into trabeculse crossing one another 



