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NORMAL HISTOLOGY. 



Fig. 99. 



Fig. 100. 



Termination of nerves by free ends. (Retzius.) 

 Fig. 99.— Two nerves terminating in the stratified epithelium covering the vocal cords of 



the cat. 

 Fig. 100.— Nerve-fibres distributed among the cells lining the bladder of the rabbit; o, super- 

 ficial layer of the transitional epithelium ; bg, fibrous tissue underlying the epithelium. 



merits, which branch and finally end among the tissue-elements to 

 which the nerve is supplied. The filaments often present small vari- 

 cosities, and sometimes end in slight enlargements corresponding to 

 one of those swellings. In other cases the terminations are filiform 

 (Figs. 98-100). 



A more complex mode of termination is that exemplified in the 

 " motor-plates " of the striated muscle-fibre. Here the axis-cylinder 



