Identifier: anatomydescripti1897gray (find matches)
Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Carter, H. V. (Henry Vandyke), 1831-1897 Pick, T. Pickering (Thomas Pickering), 1841-1919
Subjects: Anatomy Human anatomy Anatomy, Surgical and topographical
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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EGANS from side to side, and its long axis is directed from above obliquely downwardsand backwards, in a line directed from some point between the sym^Dhysis pubisand umbilicus (according to its distension) to the end of the coccyx. The bladder,when distended, is slightly curved forwards towards the anterior wall of theabdomen, so as to be more convex behind than in front. In the female it islarger in the transverse than in the vertical diameter, and its capacity is said tobe greater than in the male.* When moderately distended, it measures aboutfive inches in length, and three inches across, and the ordinary amount which itcontains is about a pint. The bladder is divided for purposes of description into a superior, an antero-inferior, a posterior and two lateral surfaces. The superior or abdominal surfacs is entirely free, and is covered throughoutby peritoneum. It looks almost directly upwards into the abdominal cavity and Fig. 667.—Vertical section of bladder, penis, and urethra.
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EjaculaJ^f^ dUuti /^Pl Py&pux^Z.- is in relation with the small intestine and sometimes with the sigmoid flexure,and in the female, with the uterus. To its summit is attached the ^traclms. The urachus is the obliterated remains of a tubular canal which exists in theembryo, and connects the cavity of the bladder with a membranous sac placedexternal to the abdomen, opposite the umbilicus, called the allantois. It passesupwards, from the apex of the bladder betAveen the transversalis fascia and peri-toneum, to the umbilicus, becoming thinner as it ascends. It is composed offibrous tissue, mixed with plain muscular fibres. On each side of it is placed afibrous cord, the obliterated portion of the hypogastric artery, which, passing * According to Henle, the bladder is considerably smaller in the female than in themale. THE BLADDEE 1075 upwards from the side of the bladder, approaches the urachus above its summit.In the infant, at birth, it is occasionally found pervious, so that the ur

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