Title: Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy
Identifier: cunninghamstextb00cunn (find matches)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cunningham, D. J. (Daniel John), 1850-1909; Robinson, Arthur, b. 1862, ed
Subjects: Anatomy
Publisher: New York, W. Wood
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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1310 THE UEIXO-GEXITAL SYSTEM. THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS. The reproductive glands in the female are a pair of ovaries placed laterally in the cavity of the pelvis. In connexion with each ovary is an elongated passage or tube the tuba uterina, uterine, or Fallopian tube—which leads to the uterus and opens into its cavity. There is no direct continuity between the ovary and the uterine tube, such as exists between the other glands of the body and their ducts, but the ova, when shed from the ovary, pass into the open end of the tube, and are thus conducted to the uterine cavity. The uterus is a hollow muscular organ which Ileum Suspensory ligament Cascum Vermiform process Ovary - Tuba uterina- Inf. epigastric" Round ligament - Fundus uteri" Obliterated umbilical artery Urinary bladder Urethra Labium minus Labium majus- -
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---Ureter Nerve cords from hypo- gastric plexus Recto-uterine fold Utero-vesical pouch Rectouterine pouch Orificium exter- num uteri Vagjna Fig. 1028.—Median Section through the Female Pelvis. Drawn for the most part from a model made from a dissection by Professor Edward H. Taylor. occupies a nearly median position in the pelvis; it is joined by the uterine tubes above, and it communicates with the upper part of the vagina below. The ovum, having passed through the tube, reaches the cavity of the uterus, and in it, if fertilisation has taken place, the ovum undergoes its development into the embryo and fcetus. The vagina is the passage which leads from the uterus to the exterior, and has its external opening behind that of the urethra, within the rima pudendi or urino-genital space. In connexion with the urino-genital space are a number of structures which are included under the term external genital organs, and which represent in the female the various parts of the penis and scrotum in the male. These are the labia majora and the mons Veneris, the labia minora, the clitoris, and the bulbus vestibuli. The larger vestibular glands, placed one on each side of the lower part of the vagina, are accessory organs of the female reproductive system, and are represented by the bulbo-urethral glands in the male.

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