. The effects of inanition and malnutrition upon growth and structure . Fig. 49.—Adipose tissue ' from the tela subcutanea of an extremely emaci- ated, athreptic infant. The atrophic adipose cells have been almost completely depleted of fat, and are closely packed so as to resemble the Malpighian layer of the epidermis. X400. (Parrot '77.) even in the adult (Gehewe '52). Beneke (05) stated that the cells of a lipoma differ from ordinary fat cells in that they do not atrophy in general emaciation of the body. In cases of malnutritional edema (due chiefly to partial inanition,

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