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The mode of termination varies a great deal. One gland 
forms the familiar T-shape, the cross-bar being tubular and 
short. Another sends off a lateral branch which immediately 
divides dichotomously, each branch again dividing, one of the 
latter branches extending back two-thirds of the distance toward 
the epithelial surface, terminating in an enlarged end. A third 
gland, after turning at right angles to the surface, breaks up 
into two parallel tubes, one subdividing, the other anastomosing 
with a parallel end piece of another gland. 
Some are even more complex in their branchings and divisions 
(fig. 7) approaching the complex type described for the fourteen- 
year-old, except that the branches are found more deeply em- 
bedded in the mucosa and in general run parallel to the surface 
at their terminations. Only one single tubular gland is present 
and it runs parallel to the surface at its distal end. 
The models show that anastomosing between glands and 
between branches of glands is not uncommon. ‘Two simple 
- glands anastomose then divide into several branches (fig. 6). 
Again, two rather widely separated glands anastomose, then 
divide into a complex set of branches which extend for some 
distance along the muscle layer. 
DISCUSSION 
Guyon (’58) and de Sinéty (’79) found no glands, properly 
speaking, in the corpus of the fetal uterus, although they found 
well-developed ones in the cervix. De Sinéty states that glands 
are not developed until the sixth or seventh year. Wyder 
(78), who is quoted in Keibel and Mall’s Embryology, found 
no glands in the uteri of ten-year-old girls, and contends that 
the stages of development bear no relation to age. Tourneux 
and Legay (’84) found glands in the cervix of a late fetus, but 
none in the corpus, even at birth. Moricki (’82) described 
glands in the cervix of fetal uteri. In a premature of nine 
months, he found well-developed glands, with branches, in the 
corpus and in a new-born he found many glands in the fundus. 
The glands varied in form, but were usually tubular with relative 
