Subcutaneous Cellular Tissue

The subcutaneous cellular tissue is nothing but a lax network of connective tissue. The bundles of fibres, "usually cylindrical, exhibit constrictions at various points like those of the arachnoid membrane, and consist of a number of sinuous fibres of connective tissue, between which lie numerous fusiform and connective-tissue corpuscles of various forms and dimensions." It is this part in which the fat cells are collected in the meshes of the fibres, the only seats destitute of fat being the eyelids, penis, scrotum and ears. The fat I need not describe. The fusiform cells that lie bet­ween the bundles and fibres of the connective tissue are connected with these fibres by means of processes given off one at either end, with other minor ones elsewhere. Other fusiform cells, without processes (the migrating cells), and small cells like blood-cells, are observed, the latter being contiguous to the vessels. There is no line of demarcation between the corium above and the subcutaneous tissue below.