"Blastema" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time. In certain cases of {295} hydrocephalus the open and dangerous spaces in the skull are filled up with new bones, which interlock by perfect serrated sutures.[723] But most physiologists, especially on the Continent, have now given up the belief in plastic lymph or blastema, and Virchow[724] maintains that every structure, new or old, is formed by the proliferation of pre-existing cells. On this view false membranes, like cancerous or other tumours, are merely abnormal ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin |
