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a. Corium. b—c. Papille. 
which are about +}5 of an inch in length; the outer portion is extremely well 
supplied with bloodvessels. Every papilla has its loop of capillaries. The 
deeper portion of the dermis is looser in texture, and contains an amount of 
fatty tissue. Beneath this again is a loose cellular tissue—the subcutaneous 
tissue which contains a larger proportion of fat. The use of this latter tissue is 
to fill up all the irregularities of surface in the underlying parts, and to give 
the rounded form and plumpness to the surface of the body. 
The skin contains a number of glands which are situated in the lower part 
of the coriwm. Their construction is more easily understood if we imagine an 
indiarubber tube open at one end, closed on the other, and wound up loosely om 
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Suporiparovs or Sweat GLANDS. 
a. Cuticle. b. Rete mucosum. c. Cutis, d—e. Elastic fibres. 
