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CONNERSVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 964 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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:White See also:Water See also:river, in the See also:east central See also:part of the See also:state, about 50 M. E. by S. of See also:Indianapolis. Pop. (19oo) 6836; (1910) 7738. It is served by the See also:Cincinnati, See also:Hamilton & See also:Dayton, the See also:Cleveland, Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St 963 s, Sarcoplasm. m, Bundle of fibrillae forming under the sarcolemma. Each is surrounded by a small quantity of sarcoplasm and in shape is an elongated See also:ellipse. In most cases the muscle See also:fibres do not See also:branch, though in a few instances, such as the superficial muscles of the See also:tongue, branching is found. Involuntary or Smooth Muscle (See also:figs. 13 and 14).—This See also:form of muscle See also:tissue when separated into its single constituents is seen to consist of fibres possessing a typical See also:long spindle shape. The central part is somewhat swollen and contains an elongated See also:nucleus centrally placed. The ends of the fibres are See also:drawn out and pointed sharply.

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 964 See also:Louis, the Fort See also:Wayne, Cincinnati & See also:Louisville See also:railways, and by the Indianapolis & Cincinnati See also:Traction See also:line (electric). It has a See also:good water-See also:power, and among its manufactures are wagons and carriages, axles, See also:furniture, See also:flour and electric signs. The water-See also:works are owned and operated by the city. Connersville was first settled about the close of the See also:war of 1812; was laid out in 1817 by See also:John Conner, in whose See also:honour it was named; and received a city See also:charter in 1869.

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