Identifier: clinicalgyncolog00keat (find matches)
Title: Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Keating, John M. (John Marie), 1852-1893 Coe, Henry Clark, 1856-
Subjects: Women Gynecology
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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condition. When over-distended, the bladder rises above theline of the pubic bones and is seen as a mesial projection above the symphysis.In extreme cases it may reach to the umbilicus, the female being more dis-tensible than tiie male organ. In the mature female the transverse diameteris the greater, and the shape of the bladder when partially filled is ovoid,with its long axis directed transversely. The empty bladder is generallydescribed as a collapsed sac, whose cavity, together with the canal of theurethra, appears in sagittal section either as a Y-shaped or an L-shaped 840 DISEASES OF THE URETHRA, BLADDER, ASD URETERS. fissure. This opinion is based on the study of frozen sections and theappearances found on the post-mortem table. Morris (Human Anatomy)says, It is possible that this diastolic form of the empty bladder, as ithas been termed, is the normal result of a relaxation preliminary to re-filling, but it appears more probable that it is due to the loss of the vital Fig. 7.
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Frozen section of the pelvis, showing empty bladder. (Fu^t) elasticity of the muscular walls, and that the healthy living bladder alwaysmaintains a rounded or ovoid form. The bladder has three openings,—the ostium urethra1 internum andthe two ureteric orifices. The former is described below; the latter aresituated one on each side of the median line on the floor of the bladder,about three centimetres behind the vesical opening of the urethra and thesame distance apart. A transverse band stretching from one to the otheris known as the inter-ureterie ligament. The appearance of the ureteral orifice differs in different cases. Asstated by Kelly, It sometimes appears as a dimple or as a tine slit in themucous membrane; at others as a /\ with the point directed outward.Again, it may present the form of a truncated cone with gently sloping

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