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d.;.', -nerat in-- \ a>cular Lrlomei uli (ink). Certain oaoak ami cyst -like 

 structures, \vliich are often t'>unl in tin- broad ligament of the adult 

 tin- uterus, are to l.e referred f it. 



Tin- two .}/// r/'d/i -huts (fig. -I'.' mg)i which from the beginning 



lie iii flu- margin of tin- peritoneal fold tliat tin- reception 



of the ovarv and >ul-<e|ueni ly become^ tin- broad ligament, undergo 

 a very profound metamorphosis. It h:i> already U-.-n mentioned 

 that a- tliry cnt.-r the LeBBOT <>r tnii- ))-lvi- thry a j.j.roacli tin* in-dian 

 {lane, and art- joined to the gonital cord. \V- can tln-r- I 

 tiiii,Miish in tlnMii t \vo <litV-r-nt n L r ion-. on*- cnclt<'d in the L r i nital 

 cord, the other lyin: in thf inaririn of the broad ligumei 



Fig. 227. Broad ligament with ovary and oviduct in the adult condition, seen from behind. 

 ei, Ovary : (. oviduct : t'. ostium a1>.loiiiin:ili- tulcr with tiinliri:*- ; /'... timhrise ovarii ; l.o, liga- 



incntum ovarii ; x, a portion of the peritoneal iin in order to see 



the ei*xiphoron (i>arovarium), ep. 



latter becomes the oviduct (the tnl>a Fallopia-) with its funnel-shaped 

 beginning (figs. 225 t, 220, 'I'll t. f' ). The anterior end of the 

 Miillerian duc-t. which in the embryo reaches far forward and i^ 

 here enclosed in the diaphragmatic ligament of the primitive kidney, 

 appeals in the meantime to degenerate, whereas the permanent 

 opening (ii^s. L'lT) /an.l -Jl'O /', is prol.ahly an entirely new formation. 

 MORGAGNI'S hydatid (fig. 2! peiliaps to be referred to the 



anterior rudimentary p:iri the conditions hero have not \ 

 made entirely clear. This structure is a small \e>icle. which is joined. 

 by means of a longer or shorter stalk, with one of the timhrioe of the 

 funnel-shaped end of the oviduct. 



Out of the part of the Miillerian duct> enclosed in the genital 

 cord (fig. 219 mg) are formed the uterus and the vagina (fig. 225 ut 



