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The microscope and its revelations (1891)

Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885, Dallinger, W. H. (William Henry), 1842-1909 · Philadelphia, Blakiston · leaf 1040

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destitute of nerve-fibres,must have for their special office the production ofepidermis ; whilst thosewhich, possessing nerve-fibres, have sensory func-tions, are usually destituteof blood-vessels. Thegreater part of the interiorof each sensory papilla(tig. 729, c c) of the skinis occupied by a… … Fig. 729.—Vertical section of skin of finger, show-ing the branches of the cutaneous nerves, a, b,inosculating to form a plexus, of which the ulti-mate fibres pass into the cutaneous papilla?, c c. the tongue, to each of which several of them proceed ; these bodies,which are very transparent, may…

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