The prosomatic skeleton of Limulus; the entosternite or plastron compared with the trabeculae of Ammocoetes; similarity of position, of structure, of origin in fibrous tissue.
It would appear that portions of muscle transplanted from animals to fill up gaps in human muscle are similarly replaced by fibrous tissue.
Within a few hours the peritoneal surfaces are glued together by a thin layer of fibrin and leucocytes, which is speedily organised and replaced by fibrous tissue.
In wounds of the liver, for example, the gap is filled by fibrous tissue, but towards the periphery of the wound the liver cells proliferate and a certain amount of regeneration takes place.
Cicatrization is accomplished by the development of fibrous tissue in the floor and borders of the ulcer.
The cicatrix of such ulcers consists of fibrous tissue uncovered by mucous membrane.
Tissue of hepatic cells interrupted by bands of fibrous tissue, m, m.
Cirrhosis of the stomach is characterized by thickening of the walls of the greater part or of the whole of the stomach in consequence of a new growth of fibrous tissue, combined usually with hypertrophy of the muscular layers of the stomach.
These large tuberculous masses are surrounded by or embedded in layers of fibrous tissuewhich in some cases becomes very dense and thick.
The lobules are held together by a small amount of fibrous tissue, in which the bile ducts and larger blood vessels are lodged.
Thus a tumor formed after the type of fibrous tissue is a fibroma.
Adhesions between other parts of the tympanic membrane and the inner wall of the tympanic cavity, either by bridles or bands of fibrous tissue, or by the membrane itself being adherent over a large area.
In some cases of horse-shoe kidney the organs are united merely by fibrous tissue.
The interstitial tissue is always affected, and exudation, proliferation and formation of fibrous tissue occur.
When the disease follows scarlet fever, the glomerular structures are mostly affected, the capsules being thickened by fibrous tissue, and the glomerular tuft compressed and atrophied.
When the overgrowth of fibrous tissue is considerable, the surface of the organ becomes uneven, and it is for this reason that the term granular kidney has been applied to the condition.
These areas become replaced by fibrous tissue which in the gross specimen appears as streaks of whitish or yellowish color in the musculature.
The arteries become thickened, lose their wonderful elasticity, fibrous tissue is deposited in their walls, and the vicious circle is established which leads to pathologic hypertension.
One gets the impression that the small sclerotic lesions are the result of anemia and gradual replacement of scattered glomeruli by fibrous tissue.
Some of the posterior ribs frequently do not reach the sternum; they may then be attached by fibrous tissue to the ribs in front, or may end freely (floating ribs).
In young animals the rami are united at the symphysis by fibrous tissue, but in old animals they sometimes become fused together.
The roof and floor of the cranium internal to the membrane bones are formed of fibrous tissue, not of well-developed cartilage.
Kölliker's distinction, therefore, was between the bones formed in the primordial cartilaginous cranium on the one hand, and the superficial ossifications in fibrous tissue on the other hand.
The whole nerve, not unlike a minute tendon in appearance, is covered by a dense sheath of fibrous tissue, in which the blood-vessels and lymphatics are distributed to the nerve fibers.
Nature throws out between and around the broken ends of bones a supply of repair material known as plastic lymph, which is changed to fibrous tissue, then to cartilage, and finally to bone.
These are commonly very strong cords, like belts or straps, made up of white, fibrous tissue.
Organization is the transformation of the thrombus into a mass of fibrous tissue.
The canal is thus obstructed or obliterated by a fibrous tissue, which is pigmented or not, as the pre-existing thrombus contained red blood-corpuscles or not.
One of the frequent products of inflammation is fibrous tissue, which, at first abundantly cellular, later becomes more vascular, and is finally transformed into a tissue whose fibres predominate over its cells.
The former term should be limited to the osteoid plates so often found as circumscribed thickenings of the aortic intima, and which are obviously new-formed patches of fibrous tissue in which the calcium salts are accumulated.
When there is little displacement, bony union may result, but in many cases the fragments are united only by fibrous tissue.
The nose is characteristically broad and flattened, the ala being bound down to the alveolar margin of the maxilla by fibrous tissue.
When union fails to take place, the interval between the fragments tends to increase by the contraction of the triceps gradually stretching the intermediate fibrous tissue, so that a wide gap comes to separate the fragments.
Sometimes the fragments become united by a dense band of fibrous tissue, and the reparative process goes no further--fibrous union.
The majority of veins are provided with valves; these are folds of the lining membrane, strengthened by fibrous tissue.
Abnormal growths, such as tumors or fibrous tissue, producing contraction or stricture, may be causes of obstruction.
It may also lead to sclerosis or increase of fibrous tissue, especially in the kidneys, when it may result in the condition known as arterio-capillary fibrosis.
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