A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery . follicle, the cells of which have become greatly hyper-trophied and loaded with fat granules previous to rupture, is throwninto numerous folds. The greater the amount of contraction thedeeper these folds become, giving to a section of the follicle anappearance similar to that of the convolutions of the brain (Fig. 37).These folds in the human subject are generally of a brignl yellowcolor, but in some of the mammalia they are of a deep red. The tinlwas formerly ascribed by Raciborski to absorption of the coloringmatter of the blood-clot cont
A treatise on the science and practice of midwifery . follicle, the cells of which have become greatly hyper-trophied and loaded with fat granules previous to rupture, is throwninto numerous folds. The greater the amount of contraction thedeeper these folds become, giving to a section of the follicle anappearance similar to that of the convolutions of the brain (Fig. 37).These folds in the human subject are generally of a brignl yellowcolor, but in some of the mammalia they are of a deep red. The tinlwas formerly ascribed by Raciborski to absorption of the coloringmatter of the blood-clot contained in the follicular cavity, a theoryhe has more recently abandoned in favor of tin* view maintainedby Coste that it is due to the inherent color of the cells of the liningmembrane of the follicle, which, though not well marked in a singlecell, becomes very apparent en masse. The existence of ;t containedblood-clot is also denied by the latter physiologist, except as an 1 Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1S75. 74 ORGANS CONCERNED IN Section of ovary, showing corpus lute urn three weeks after menstruation. (After Dalton.) unusual pathological condition; and he describes the cavity as contain-ing a gelatinous and plastic fluid, which becomes absorbed as contrac-tion advances. The folds into which the membrane has been thrown continue to increase in size, from theproliferation of their cells, until theyunite and become adherent, and eventu-ally fill the follicular cavity. By thetime that another Graafian follicle ismatured and ready for rupture thediminution has advanced considerably,and the empty ovisac is reduced to avery small size. The cavity is nownearly obliterated, the yellow color ofthe convolutions is altered into a whitishtint, and on section the corpus luteumhas the appearance of a compact whitestellate cicatrix, which generally disap-pears in less than forty days from theperiod of rupture. The tissue of theovary at the site of laceration alsoshrinks,
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