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. Human physiology. Capillary Network of Nervous Centres. Capillar} Network of Fungiform Pa-pilla of the Tongue. The capillary vessels have been esteemed b}^ some to belong chieflyto the arteries, the venous radicles not arising almost imperceptiblyfrom the capillary system, as the arteries terminate in it, but having amarked size at the part where they quit this system, which strikinglycontrasts with the excessive tenuity of the capillary arterial vessels;whilst between the capillary system and the arteries there is no distinctline of demarcation. The opinion of Bichat^ was, that this s^stem
. Human physiology. Capillary Network of Nervous Centres. Capillar} Network of Fungiform Pa-pilla of the Tongue. The capillary vessels have been esteemed b}^ some to belong chieflyto the arteries, the venous radicles not arising almost imperceptiblyfrom the capillary system, as the arteries terminate in it, but having amarked size at the part where they quit this system, which strikinglycontrasts with the excessive tenuity of the capillary arterial vessels;whilst between the capillary system and the arteries there is no distinctline of demarcation. The opinion of Bichat^ was, that this s^stem isentirely independent of both arteries and veins; and Autenrieth*imagined, that the minute arteries unite to form trunks, which againdivide before communicating with the veins, so as to represent a systemanalogous to that of the vena porta. The experiments of Dr. Marshall * Elements of Physiology, by R. Willis, Lond., 1842. * Lehrbuch der Fhysiologie des Menschen, i. 467, Braunschweig, See also Lebert, Fhysi
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