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THE TISSUES. 



dendrites may be present, as also collaterals from the neuraxis, and 

 in rare cases even several neuraxes. According to the number of 

 its processes, a ganglion cell is known as unipolar, bipolar, or 

 multipolar. 



Dendrite. 



Neuraxis. 



-Neuraxis. 



Dendrite.- " 



Fig. HO. Motor neurones from the anterior horn of the spinal cord of a new-born cat. 



Chrome-silver method. 



Although neurones present a great variety of morphologic dif- 

 ferences, large and variously shaped cell-bodies or small ones 

 scarcely larger than the nucleus ; large and numerous dendrites or 



;- Telodendrion. 



Dendrite. 



- Cell-body. 



Neuraxis. 



Fig. in. A nerve-cell with branched dendrites (Purkinje's cell), from the cerebellar 

 cortex of a rabbit ; chrome-silver method ; X I2 5- 



few and less conspicuous ones, and although these various forms 

 are widely distributed and intermingled in the different parts of the 

 nervous system, yet in many regions there are found nerve-cells of 

 fixed and characteristic morphologic appearance, which would 



