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CONNERSVILLE
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Fayette county, See also:Indiana, U.S.A., situated on See also: There is no definite surrounding membrane to each See also:cell . In most of the cells, especially the larger, a distinct See also:longitudinal marking can be seen . This is due to the presence of the fibrils which run the length of the fibre and in all See also:probability are the essential contractile elements . In most instances the cells are arranged with one another in a tissue to form bundles or sheets of contractile substance . In each bundle or See also:sheet the cells are cemented to one another so that they may all See also:act in unison . The cementing material is apparently of a membranous See also:character and is so arranged that contiguous fibres are only separated by a single layer of membrane . According to some, neighbouring fibres are connected to one another by See also:minute offshoots, and these communications serve to explain the manner in which the contractionisobserved to pass from fibre to fibre along a sheet composed of the muscles . Involuntary muscle is the variety of muscle tissue found in the walls of the hollow viscera, such as See also:stomach, intestines, ureter, See also:bladder, uterus, &c., and of the respir- atory passages, in the See also:middle coats of See also:arteries, in the skin and the See also:muscular tra- beculae of the See also:spleen . The arrangement is very typical, for in- stance, in the small See also:intestine . Here the muscular coat consists of two layers of muscle . Each is in the form of a sheet which varies greatly in thickness in different animals . In the inner sheet the fibres, which are all parallel to one another, are disposed with their long See also:axis transverse to the direction of the gut .
In
the See also:outer layer, the direction of the fibres is at right angles to
this
.
In a viscus with thick muscle walls the fibres are See also:bound
into bundles and the bundles may run in all directions
.
In some
the intermediate substance is the sarcoplasm
.
In some muscles, apparently, each fibrilla is surrounded by a considerable amount of sarcoplasm, in which See also:case the fibrillae are easily isolated from one another and can be readily examined
.
This is the case in the wing muscles of See also:insects
.
The nuclei of the fibre are arranged See also:close
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