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Title: On the viscera of an Indian rhinoceros
Author(s): Burne, R.H.
Year published: 1905
Journal: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Volume: 1905 February 7
Pages: 56-58
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Indian Rhino
Viscera. Sex: Male. Collected by: London Zoological Society. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.
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Indian Rhino
Viscera. Sex: Male. Collected by: London Zoological Society. In Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom.
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Anatomy - Internal organs
Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros unicornis, male Jim in London Zoo. Caecum. This organ is lined by a voluminous mucous membrane, separated from the muscular wall by an extremely loose submucosa and thus easily thrown into transient folds. The mucous membrane consists, as usual in this part of the gut, of an even an...
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Rhinoceros unicornis, male Jim in London Zoo. Larynx. The epiglottis is intranarial. The outer walls of the ventricles and lateral pouches are covered by gland tissue. The two folds of mucous membrane that run upwards, outwards, and backwards from the anterior attachment of the vocal cords an...
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Rhinoceros unicornis, male Jim in London Zoo. Stomach. A section showing the line of demarcation between the cardiac and glandular regions. The epithelium of the cardiac region, as in other Perissodactyla, is similar to that of the oesophagus - a stratified epithelium with easily separable cor...
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Rhinoceros unicornis, male Jim in London Zoo. Bladder and Urethra. The seminal vesicles and prostate are more complex than one would be led to suppose from Owen's description and figure. When fully dissected out, the seminal vesicles can be resolved into a number of convoluted tubes, that conv...
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Rhinoceros unicornis, male Jim in London Zoo. Duodenum. A portion, taken about 1 ft 6 in. from the stomach, showing the papilliform valvulae conniventes. Microscopic sections show that the papilliform processes are covered with villi. The interior of each process contained a number of follicl...
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Indian Rhino
Rhinoceros unicornis, male Jim in London Zoo. The Parathyroid body. The external appearance and position accurately given by Owen. In histological structure it conforms to Welsh's type 4, consisting of small cells clustered so as to form globular alveoli. In some parts the masses of cells app...
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Rhinoceros unicornis, male Jim in London Zoo. Kidney. Except at the hylus, the kidney is not lobulated. Thickenings of the capsule along certain anastomosing lines give it, however, superficially a lobulated appearance. In the entire absence of any pyramids projecting into the pelvis there is...
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