Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 182. Fig. 183. Fig. 184. Fig. 1S5. Dermoid or hard fibrous tumors.—These tumors are generally ofa white color, more or less tough and elastic, resembling the well-knownB structure of the dermis. This, indeed, is£_ not so apparent in examining the compara-Sp- tively thin human dermis; but on looking^ at that of some of the larger animals, and|§ more especially of the whale, the analogy inH structure at once becomes evident. Theseas tumors are of a rounded or oval form,^ frequently embedded in a cyst, composed^ of the indurated


Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 182. Fig. 183. Fig. 184. Fig. 1S5. Dermoid or hard fibrous tumors.—These tumors are generally ofa white color, more or less tough and elastic, resembling the well-knownB structure of the dermis. This, indeed, is£_ not so apparent in examining the compara-Sp- tively thin human dermis; but on looking^ at that of some of the larger animals, and|§ more especially of the whale, the analogy inH structure at once becomes evident. Theseas tumors are of a rounded or oval form,^ frequently embedded in a cyst, composed^ of the indurated structures in which lie. They are of considerable density, vary-ing from that of tendon to that of ligamentor fibro-cartilage, and on section presentinterwoven together, orloops intercrossing with


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