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                                                Cardiac muscle - histology slide
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                                                This histology image shows the myocytes cut mainly in cross section or tangentially. They are individual fibers about 15 microns in diameter with a large amount of eosinophilic cytoplasm and a centrally placed nucleus. 
  
Histology slide descriptions and photography by Frank N. Miller, M.D.; histology slide courtesy of Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. 
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