Identifier: system01mann (find matches)
Title: A system of gynecology
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Mann, Matthew D. (Matthew Darbyshire), 1845-1921
Subjects: Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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To the various neoplasms and their origin we can only refer; thatthey are formed from pre-existing elements will be evident to thestudent of normal histology. THE URINARY TRACT.That portion of the tract which is usually described with the genitalOrgans includes the urethra, the bladder, and the termination of theureters. These will be considered in the same order as were thegenital organs—that is, from below upward. Urethra.Syxoxyms.— >//-., oupijdpa ; Lat., canal is urinarius, urethra, iter uri-narium ; /•>., urethrc, uretre; Ger., Harnrohre; Sp. and It., uretra.Dkhxitiox.—The female urethra is a snort canal imbedded in the anterior vaginal wall, extending from the meatus urinarius to the neckof the bladder. 184 THE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE PELVIC ORGANS. In a mesial section of the pelvis the urethra appears as a slit nearlystraight, or, as some authors describe it, with a slight sigmoid curvecorresponding to that of the posterior vaginal wall.1 Its course is Fig. 59. y^X
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Frozi n Pi is, showing contracted bladder and relations of urethra : a. anus- (), vagina; - uterus; e, bottom of Douglas s pouch ;/, symphysis pubis Furst). upward and backward, being parallel with the plane of the pelvicbrim. Henle states that in cross-sections the canal is represented bya transverse slit near its vesical end, while at other points, except atthe meatus, tli section lias a stellate appearance. The average lengthnf the urethra is one and three-eighths inches, the average diameter aquarter of an inch. For the sake of convenience we may considerfirst the beginning of the canal, then the portion that lies between itstwo openings, and lastly the vesical extremity. When in a state of rest the meatus appears as a small dimple,or puckering, of* the mucous membrane, situated in the median lineat the lower edge of the vestibule, from three-fourths to four-fifthsof an inch below the clitoris and an inch in front of the iour- 1 Winckel, Krankheiten d.r Wabl. Harnrohre ». Blase,

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