The term discolored is applied to dirty, cloudy colors, particularly gray or greenish, as in gangrene. Spotted, mottled, streaked, variegated, etc., have the same application in the autopsy-protocol that they have elsewhere. The judgment of the color of an organ should be made twice: as seen through the capsule or external covering, and again on the cut surface of the organ. In the latter case the transparency, translucency or opacity of the surface should be noted with the color. Normally translucent structures become opaque as the result of inflammatory thickening, parenchymatous degenerations, leukocyte infiltrations, tubercles, postmortem digestion, etc. An increase in translucence may be due to œdema, hydropic degeneration, amyloid, mucoid and colloid degenerations, liquefaction necrosis, anæmia, atrophy, loss of pigment, etc. (translucent, transparent, jelly-like, colloid, mucoid, lardaceous, sago, bacon, ham-fat, pearly, etc.). 5. =Consistence.= This is best estimated by placing the four fingers of the right hand beneath the edge of the organ as it lies on the board or in the body and lifting it slightly upward and inward toward the main mass of the organ. This should be done in several places, so that an idea of the general consistence of the organ is obtained. Hollow organs must be tested before and after opening, in the latter case, to get an idea of the consistence of the wall. Organs with capsules should be tested through the uncut capsule and also on the cut surface. After the general consistence has been determined an examination of the entire organ by thumb and fingers should be made to determine localized areas of different consistence (soft: abscess, cyst, œdema, areas of degeneration, etc.; hard: amyloid, tubercles, tumors, chronic passive congestion, fibroid indurations, pneumonic areas, etc.). The size and location of such areas should be carefully noted. The presence of fluctuation, loss of elasticity, pitting on pressure, friability, hardness, etc., should be described in ordinary terms, although a comparison with familiar objects often gives a more definite impression than the simple use of adjectives describing the condition (consistence of leather, dough, mush, pea-soup, putty, wood, jelly, stone, iron, etc.). The relaxation or softness of an organ is often judged by its flattening on the board, or by its hanging down over the index-finger when this is placed beneath its middle and the organ raised, or by the jelly-like tremors of the organ when the dish containing it is agitated.