THE STOMACH 



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peculiar convoluted tubules, lying just within the muscularis mu- 

 cosae, by which the pyloric mucous membrane is most readily distin- 

 guished from all other regions of the alimentary tract. 



FIG. 234. THE MUCOSA OF THE PYLORIC REGION OF THE HUMAN STOMACH. 



a, ft, and c, respectively the crypt, neck, and fundua zones of the secreting glands ; </, 

 muscularis mucosae ; e, submucosa. Hematein and eosin. Photo, x 151. 



The tall columnar cells of the fimdus possess a remarkably 

 clear cytoplasm which reacts distinctly, though feebly, to the spe- 



