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umbilicus to the umbilical cord and the placenta, (Plate IX). The middle 

 vesical branch passes to the base of the bladder and is generally a branch of the 

 superior vesical. The inferior vesical branch runs to the base of the bladder, 

 prostate gland and seminal vesicales in the male and to the vagina, rectum, and 

 neck of the bladder in the female. In the female it is called vaginal. The 

 middle hemorrhoidal branch passes to the rectum and generally arises with the 



PLATE LXI. 



The Four Dorsal Interossei. 

 inferior vesical. The obturator branch lies inferior to the obturator nerve, and 

 after passing through the obturator canal it divide s into an internal and an ex- 

 ternal branch, which branches wind around either margin of the obturator 

 foramen under the Obturator externns muscle. This branch arises from the 

 d( ep epigastric once in three and a half cases, and pass* > over the outer margin 

 of the femoral ring to the obturator foramen. Inside the pelvis it sends branches 

 to the Iliacus muscle and iliac fossa, branches to the bladder, and pubic branches 

 to the back of the OS pubis. The internal puttie branch is the -mailer of the 

 terminal branches of the anterior trunk, and passes ou1 of the pelvis below the 



