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NORMAL HISTOLOGY. 



slant throughout the lobule until the canaliculi reach the margin. Here the 

 liver-cells abruptly diminish in size and become continuous with the low 



Blood-capillary 



Bile-capillary 



Liver-cell 



FIG. 223. Section of liver in which both the blood- and bile-capillaries have been injected ; the biliary 

 channels surround the individual liver-cells. X 300. 



cuboidal cells that line the excretory tubes passing from the lobule into the 

 surrounding connective tissue to become tributary to the larger interlobular 



FIG. 224. Section of liver treated with Golgi 

 method, showing part of the intralobular network of 

 bile-capillaries. X 200. 



FIG. 225. Artificially digested section 

 of liver, showing supporting interlobular 

 fibrous tissue (below) and intralobular 

 reticulum (above). X 200. 



bile-ducts. The ultimate relations between the bile-capillaries and the liver- 

 cells is still a subject of discussion. According to some, extensions of the 



