OVARY (NORMAL ANATOMY). 549 



explained by the much smaller number of ovary. It lies immediately beneath the tunica 



albuginea, and fdls up the whole of the inter- 

 mediate space between the ovisacs, to which 

 it acts as a germ bed, protecting the ova from 

 injury, and serving for the conveyance of blood- 

 vessels to the ovisacs. This tissue is some- 

 times of a pale-pink, but more often of a 

 bright-red colour, from the large number of 

 blood-vessels which it contains, whose ar- 

 rangement proceeding from within, and radi- 

 ating outwardly in all directions, gives to this 

 tissue, when viewed by the naked eje or by 



blood-vessels that it contains, as compared 

 with the general parenchyma of the ovary. 

 The tunica albuginea, therefore, is not merely 

 a more condensed form of the ovarian stroma, 

 but appears to result from a development of 

 tissues which exist in the stroma in an ele- 

 mentary or embryonic form, as well as from a 

 more close conjunction and blending of those 

 tissues. 



2. The Parenchyma or Strimia,(ji. 37 1 . c, anil 

 fg. 372. *) constitutes the proper tissue of the 



Fig. 371. 



11 j } ' ; : 

 , ' i 



Ovary enlarged four diameters. (After Coste.} Dissected to shew, 



A, peritoneum; B, tunica albuginea; c, stroma; DUDD, Graafian follicles in various stages of growl li ; 

 EK, outer coat of the follicle (tunic of the ovisao) ; I-F, inner coat of the follicle (ovisur) ; t;c<;, epithelial 

 lining (membrana granulosa) ; HH, ovum ami cumulus; i, orifice by which the follicle has discharged 

 an ovum; K, Fallopian tube; r>, limbriie; M, posterior ala of broad ligament or mesentery of ovary; N, 

 tubo-ovarian ligament ; o, ligamentum ovarii. 



N N 3 



