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Retrogressive Processes. 



the transverse stride are lost and the substance found thickly beset 

 by fine fat globules. Complete cellular destruction by fatty de- 

 generation is shown by the fact that finally nothing of the cell 



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Fig. 26. 



Fat crystals (so-called margari-c acid needles); X 250. (After Perls.) 



protoplasm remains but a mass of fat globules {fotty granular mass, 

 fatty detritus, from deter ere, to disintegrate ; [also often known 

 as compound granule cells]). Where the fatty metamorphosis 

 is further advanced crystallization of part of the fat in the 



Fig. 27. 

 Cholesterin plates (after Perls) ; X 250. 



