. Bensley's Practical anatomy of the rabbit : an elementary laboratory text-book in mammalian anatomy. Rabbits -- Anatomy. CONNECTIVE TISSUES 19 cells there is formed an intercellular material consisting of either a homogeneous matrix, or, more frequently, a matrix containing formed elements of a supportive nature. Certain types of connective tissue cells occurring in various parts of the body have in common the function of phagocytosis and the property of taking up and storing minute particles of foreign materials brought to them in dilute colloidal solutions. These cells constitute the retic
. Bensley's Practical anatomy of the rabbit : an elementary laboratory text-book in mammalian anatomy. Rabbits -- Anatomy. CONNECTIVE TISSUES 19 cells there is formed an intercellular material consisting of either a homogeneous matrix, or, more frequently, a matrix containing formed elements of a supportive nature. Certain types of connective tissue cells occurring in various parts of the body have in common the function of phagocytosis and the property of taking up and storing minute particles of foreign materials brought to them in dilute colloidal solutions. These cells constitute the reticulo-endothelial or macrophage system and form an important constituent of the spleen, for example. Ordinary Connective Tissues In the adult condition the ordinary connective tissues, with few exceptions, consist of the cell basis with three kinds of fibrous elements, the white, the yellow (Fig. 6), and the reticular fibres all lying in a ground substance which is partly a watery fluid and partly more viscid in nature. White fibres are relatively coarse, single, unbranched, of various sizes, and of great strength, each constituted by a very compact bundle of fine fibrils. The yellow fibres are of smaller diameter. They branch and communicate, but are not associated to form bundles. They also differ from . I'll 1 • fi^' ^- Areolar connective tissue white fibres m bemg highly elastic, (subcutaneous tissue) of the rabbit; _>, • 1 ri 1 • from an embalmed specimen: a dia- ine reticular fibres are less COnspiC- grammatic representation to be com- pared with the photograph in Fig. 7: UOUS in most connective tissues, connective tissue cell; , bundle rT->i 1 1 1 1 • ^1 of white fibres; , vellow elastic fibre. They are related to the white fibres but form a close-meshed network. The tissue produced in this way is known as fibrous connective tissue. It occurs in several forms according to the relative concentration of the different kinds of fibres or the admixtur
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