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The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.

Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

e formed from water vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll-containing tissues of plants exposed to the action of light. It was formerly called assimilation, but this is now commonly used as in animal physiology. The details of the process are not yet clearly known. Baeyer's theory is that the carbon…

A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption. Fibroid phthisis. See under Fibroid.

physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

ration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.

ees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.

The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.

A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.

Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminæ, beneath a horse's hoof.

rts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain. Pons asinorum. Etym: [L., literally, bridge of asses.] See Asses' bridge,…

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. Sachs.