. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. 439 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. light for their identification. Hyaline (Fig. 4286) andwaxy casts are composed of the cementing substance ofthe ordinary casts ; the latter are much denser and resem-ble molten wax (Fig. 4287). Casts may also contain thegranular debris of degenerated epithelium, in larger or. Kochs tubercle bacillus (B. tuberculosis) can be de-tected in the urine of patients suffering from tuberculousdisease of the
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. 439 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. light for their identification. Hyaline (Fig. 4286) andwaxy casts are composed of the cementing substance ofthe ordinary casts ; the latter are much denser and resem-ble molten wax (Fig. 4287). Casts may also contain thegranular debris of degenerated epithelium, in larger or. Kochs tubercle bacillus (B. tuberculosis) can be de-tected in the urine of patients suffering from tuberculousdisease of the genito-urinary organs. Its recognition isof the highest diagnostic value, and has been used forthe differential diagnosis between abdominal typhus and Blood casts. smaller quantity, forming the so-called granular casts,which may be slightly granular or almost opaque. Debrisfrom blood may give them a yellow or reddish tint. Infatty degeneration the epithelium imbedded in the castmay contain highly refracting particles of oil, or the fatmay be in the form of oil-drops in the matrix of the fatly casts are easily distinguished under the mi-croscope. Masses of epithelium-cells from the tubules may be ag-gregated so as to form moulds or cast-shaped are simple exfoliations of thecellular contents of the tubule, andoccur often with the other form of epi-thelial cast. Long-branched moulds of the urini-ferous tubules composed of mucusare sometimes
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