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The round ligaments are two rounded cords, between 

 4 and 5 inches in length, situated between the layers of 

 the broad ligaments, in front of and below the Fallopian 

 tubes. Commencing on each siue at the superior angle 

 of the uterus, each ligament passes forward and outward 

 through the internal abdominal . ing, along the inguinal 

 canal, to the labia hiajora, in whiffy it becomes obliterated. 



Blood-supply of the Ovaries. The tileries of the ovaries 

 and Fallopian tubes are the ovarian, from the aorta, anas- 



FlG. 155. Stages in the formation of a corpus luteum : A, Recent blood; 

 B, the wrinkling of its walls ; C, contracting stage (A. E. Giles). 



tomosing with the termination of the uterine arteries, and 

 entering the attached border of the ovary. The veins 

 follow the course of the arteries; they form a plexus near 

 the ovary the pampiniform plexus. 



The nerves are derived from the spermatic plexus, 

 the Fallopian tube receiving a branch from one of the 

 uterine nerves. 



REVIEW QUESTIONS 



What are the female organs of generation? 

 What is the mons veneris? 



