On abnormal nutrition in articular cartilages / by P. Redfern, M.D.

  • Redfern, Peter, 1821-1912.
Date:
1849
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Credit: On abnormal nutrition in articular cartilages / by P. Redfern, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The horizontal layer of cells is very thick in some situations ; its cells are so much enlarged as to measure ^27, th of an inch long, by-y,.',;,,!!! broad;—tliey contain a central granular nucleus, and some are granular throughout;—at tiie surface, they can be seen bursting and forming a granular and fibrous mass, in which nuclei can be found elongating. (See Fig. XVIII.) In other parts, indeed Fig. XVII. Fi?. xvriT. ..oo- . o 2 ZC\ ^ 0 ^ 0 >-> - 'J>Q Fiir XVn —Vertical section near the circumference of the right patella, shoioing the nof /l,,^^/ih,ithr'hur'!HnaofceUs,andtlie1ilyrou!iandaranvlarmassonthefreesurlace. MrXVIlI -rirt ca^ of tL cartilage of the f^ur, ^'^owin9tke suverfic.a^^^ grmmlar, and hurstimj. The upper part of the figure shows the granular and fibrous mass onthcsur- face. over a large portion of the surface, some of the cells, usually lying horizontally, exist; but the surface is covered with a fringe of fibres of an inch long, which is evidently the result of the splitting of hyahne substance. 1 he tiiin semi-transparent membrane, covering the bottom of the depressions before de- Fig. XIX. Fig. XX Figs. XI X. and \X.-Projecting processes fi-om the rateU^