. The endocrine organs; an introduction to the study of internal secretion . -^Sg^cHBj •^v^J$&:X. FIG. 94.—A stage in the development of a corpus luteum ofthe rabbit in which the cells form trabeculaj convergingtowards the remains of the blood-clot which originallyoccupied the cavity of the Graafian follicle. Magnified60 diameters. droplets which give thestructure the yellowishcolour from which the name corpus luteum is derived. The cells are nowknown as luteal cells; in most animals they arrange themselves in trabeculseconverging towards the remains of the clot (figs. 94, 95), which becomesgr
. The endocrine organs; an introduction to the study of internal secretion . -^Sg^cHBj •^v^J$&:X. FIG. 94.—A stage in the development of a corpus luteum ofthe rabbit in which the cells form trabeculaj convergingtowards the remains of the blood-clot which originallyoccupied the cavity of the Graafian follicle. Magnified60 diameters. droplets which give thestructure the yellowishcolour from which the name corpus luteum is derived. The cells are nowknown as luteal cells; in most animals they arrange themselves in trabeculseconverging towards the remains of the clot (figs. 94, 95), which becomesgradually organised, its place being taken by fibrous or cicatricial blood-vessels grow in from the theca along with the lutealcells, and the whole structure eventually forms, in most animals, a solidgland-like vascular mass, which is usually much larger than the follicle itreplaces. In animals which have several young at a birth, and in whichtherefore several follicles come to maturity at about the same time, theresulting corpora lutea may appear to occupy almost the whole
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