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a text book of veterinary anatomy

by septimus sisson

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Author: septimus sisson

Medicine » Veterinary Medicine » General

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...thin and easily detached where it is thickly covered with muscular tissue which has little or no attachment. The degree of vascularity conforms to the activity of the periosteum. The marrow (Medulla ossium) occupies the interstices of the spongy bone and the medullary cavity of the long bones. There are two varieties in the adult — red and yellow. In the young subject there is only red marrow (Medulla ossium rubra), but later this is replaced in the medullary cavity by yellow marrow (Medulla ossium flava). The red marrow contains several types of characteristic cells and is a blood-forming substance, while the yellow is practically ordinary acUpose tissue. Since yellow marrow is formed by regressive changes in red marrow, including fatty infiltra- tion and degeneration of the characteristic cells, we find transitional forms or stages in the process. In aged or badly nourished subjects the marrow may undergo gelatinous degeneration, resulting in the formation of gelatinous marrow....

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