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THE UTERUS. 



Malformations. — Theuteras is subject to numerous congenital malformations, 

 especially in connection with, abnormal conditions of the other genital organs. 

 These will be referred to under Development. As a malfonnation affecting the 

 uterus itself may here be mentioned the more or less double or di-vdded state of 

 the cavity, produced by the prolongation of a septum downwards into it from the 

 fundus. This is sometimes only pai-tial and confined to the upper part of the 

 cavity ; while in other instances it involves the whole cavity or also that of the 

 cervix ; and even extends through a part or the whole of the vagina. 



THE FALLOPIAN TUBES. 



These tubes may be considered as ducts of the ovaries, or oviducts, 

 and serve to convey the ovum from thence into the uterus. They are 

 inclosed, as already stated, in the free mars^m of the broad ligaments, 

 and are between three and four inches in length. Their inner or 

 attached extremities, which proceed from the upper angles of the uterus, 

 are narrow and cord-like ; but they soon begin to enlarge, and pro- 

 ceeding outwards, one on each side, pursue an undulatory course, and 

 at length, having attained the width of about a sixth of an inch or 

 more, they bend backwards and downwards towards the ovary, about an 

 inch beyond which they terminate in an expanded extremity, the margin 

 of which is divided deeply into a number of irregular processes named 

 fimbrioi; one of these, somewhat longer than the rest, is attached to the 



Fia;. 333. 



Fig. 333. — Diagrammatic View of the Uterus and its Appendages, as seen from 



BEHIND. (A. T.) I 



The uterus and upper pai-t of the vagina have been laid open by removing the posterior 

 wall ; the Fallopian tube, round ligament, and ovarian ligament have been cut short, and 

 the broad ligament removed on the left side ; u, the upper part of the uterus ; c, the 

 cervix opposite the os internum ; the triangular shape of the uterine cavity is shown, and 

 the dilatation of the cervical cavity with the rugaj termed arbor vitro ; i', upper part of 

 the vagina ; od, Fallo2iian tube or oviduct ; the narrow communication of its cavity 

 ■ftith that of the cornu of the uterus on each side is seen ; /, round ligament ; lo, ligament 

 of the ovary ; o, ovary ; i, wide outer part of the right Fallopian tube ; / /', its fimbriated 

 extremity ; po, parovarium ; h, one of the hydatids frequently found connected with the 

 broad ligament. 



outer end of the con*esponding ovary. The wide and fringed end of the 

 Fallopian tube, or rather irmniJct, as the term " tuba " literally signi- 

 fies, is turned downwards and towards the ovary, and is named the 

 fimhrialed extremitij (morsus diaboli). In the midst of these fimbria?, 

 which are arranged in a radiated manner, the tube itself opens by a 



