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NORMAL HISTOLOGY. 



Fig. 202. 



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 Normal endometrium in a patient twenty-six years of age. (X 25.) 

 The mucosa is slightly thickened, its surface is wavy, and its epithelial covering a is intact. 

 In this section it is possible to trace the glands in their continuity almost from the sur- 

 face to the muscle. A few of them are practically cylindrical throughout, but the major- 

 ity have a wavy contour presenting a well-defined corkscrew arrangement. Quite a num- 

 ber, cut just along their margin, can be recognized as little masses of epithelial cells ; 

 c, is cut longitudinally ; '/, almost transversely. At first sight one would think that there 

 was a great excess of glands in the section, whereas in reality, at most, there are not 

 more than twelve, the distances between any neighboring two being about the same. 

 The gland epithelium is intact throughout. The stroma in the superficial portions is 

 rather lax, in the deeper portions more compact, b indicates the line of junction between 

 the muscle and mucosa. Its irregularity is especially noticeable. (T. S. Cullen, Cancer 

 of the Uterus, Now York, l'.n.Mi.) 



