782 GENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT. 



ummited portion of the duct on each side forms the upper 



part of the uterus, and the Fallopian tube. In certain 



cases of arrested or abnormal development, these portions 



Fig. 238.* 



of the Miillerian ducts may not become fused together 

 at their lower extremities, and there is left a cleft or horned 

 condition of the upper part of the uterus, resembling a con- 

 dition which is permanent in certain of the lower animals. 

 In the male, the Miillerian ducts have no special 

 function, and are but slightly developed : the small prosta- 

 tic pouch, or sinus pocularis, forms the atrophied remnant 



* Fig. 238. Diagram of the "Wolffian bodies, Miillerian ducts and 

 adjacent parts previous to sexual distinction, as seen from before (from 

 Quain). sr, the supra-renal bodies; r, the kidneys; ot, common blas- 

 tema of ovaries or testicles ; W, Wolffian bodies ; w, Wolffian ducts ; 

 m, m, Miillerian ducts ; gc, genital cord ; ug t sinus urogenitalis ; t, 

 intestine : cl, cloaca. 



