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of hearts the seat of dissociation, 2

Fig. 1
Cement-lines visible. Man, aged sixty, carcinoma of stomach.  × 125
Fig. 2
Cement broad; some segmentation and, in the centre, a segment partly broken across. Man, fifty-six, arteriosclerosis, rupture of aneurysm into pericardium; hypertrophy of heart.  × 500
(both cropped to square), illustrating
Ludwig Hektoen (1863-1951 *). 42. “Segmentation and fragmentation of the myocardium,“ pp 233-267 in long section Cardiovascular and Hemapoietic Systems
Proceedings of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia 18 (1898)
University of Michigan copy, digitized February 6, 2008
another copy at NIH National Library of Medicine

“The lines may be straight or curved, which is usually the case, or crooked, zigzag, or step like. Occasionally they extend wave-like through several adjacent and parallel fibers. ¶ In quite a few cases typical segmentation producing larger or smaller segments with mostly clean-cut ends occurs in smaller or larger foci and not generally throughout the parts examined. In some of these specimens the cement-lines are visible about the foci of dissociation...” (Fig. 2)...
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“The naked-eye appearances of hearts the seat of dissociation.”
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26 June 2015

tags:
disarrangement; ekphrasis; fragmentation; hemapoietic systems; segmentation
L. Hektoen