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capillary bloodvessels were in process of formation (Fig. 28 ; 2,3 and 4), 

 and the outer layers of the cytoplasm of the branched and anasto- 

 mosing connective-tissue cells were being transformed into fibrous 

 tissue. The transformation of the succulent granulation tissue 



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FIG. 28. A FARTHER STAGE IN THE FORMATION OF SCAR TISSUE FROM 

 GRANULATION TISSUE OF THE RABBIT'S TENDON FOUR DAYS AFTER 

 DIVISION. ( x 1,000 diameters. From the same source as Fig. 27.) 



i, A dilated capillary of the tendon sheath ; 2 and 3, newly formed capillaries ; 

 4, cross-section of a newly formed capillary ; 5, one of the young connective- 

 tissue cells : the outer portion of its protoplasm and its branched processes are 

 becoming fibrillated. 



into fibrous scar tissue had begun. In another tendon examined 

 on the fourteenth day the scar tissue was already firm and pale. 

 Under the microscope it was easy to see its cells lying flat against 

 bundles of newly formed gelatiniferous fibres. 



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