The microscopical anatomy of the genital tract in the rat kangaroo (female) / by D. Berry Hart.

  • Berry Hart, D.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: The microscopical anatomy of the genital tract in the rat kangaroo (female) / by D. Berry Hart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The Ovary.—With one exception the structure of the ovary closely resembled that of the human female. The outer surface of the ovary was covered with low columnar epithelium—the germ epitlielium—except at the liilum ovarii, where the Fallopian tube was attached by its fimbriated end. Below the germ epithelium is a layer of connective tissue, made up mainly of spindle cells, witli their long axes parallel to tlie long axis of the organ, and forming Tube. Fig. 2. —Tube and ovary, sliowiug duct of Millleriau origin in ovary, yb a distinctly marked-oil tunica allniginea. From it passed radiating fibres into the general mass of the ovary. Tlie general substance of tlie ovary is made up of connective tissue, Graahan follicles, and corpora lutea cells. The (jeneral convective tissue is of a round-celled type, but there were also cells of a more epithelial type adjoining a large corpus luteum. (r'lmifinn Fotticles.—Idtese are present in fair amount, but not in the abundance one sees in the rabbit for instance. There is the same grouping as in the human female, of smaller follicles at the periphery, larger ones deeper. In the larger single Graafian follicles we liave externally a well-marked tunic of spindle connective tissue lying between the membrana granulosa inside and the (general connective tissue outside.