Chap. XXXI!.] 



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CHAPTER XXXII. 



THE FEMALE GEXITAL ORGANS. 



343. (1) THE ovary (Fig. 141.) In the ovary, as 

 in other glands, the framework is to be distinguished 

 from the paren- 

 chyma. In the part 

 of the ovary next 

 to the hilum there 

 are numerous blood- 

 vessels, in a loose 

 fibrous connective 

 tissue, with nu- 

 merous longitudinal 

 bundles of non- 

 striped muscular 

 tissue directly con- 

 tinuous with the 

 same tissues of the 

 ligamentum latum. 

 This portion of the 

 ovary is the zona 

 vasculosa (Wal- 

 deyer). All parts of 

 the zona vasculosa 

 i.e., the bundles 

 of fibrous connec- 

 tive tissue, the 

 blood - vessels, and 

 the bundles of non- 

 striped muscular 

 tissue are traceable into the parenchyma. The stroma 

 of this latter, however, is made up of bundles of shorter 



R 1 



Pig. 



141. Vertical Section through 

 Ovary of half -grown Cat. 



The albuidnea ; tbe germinal epithelium is not 

 distinguishable owing to the low power under 

 which the section is supposed to be viewed; 

 6, the layer of smallest Grmfiao follicle? mid 

 ova ; c, the medium-si zee" follicles : <I. the layer 

 of large follicles ; c, the 2011:1 vasculosa. (Atlas.) 



