THE GENITAL ORGANS OF THE FEMALE. 



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former being placed between the two serous layers of the ligament, and the latter — 

 also within this ligament — receives a band detached from the principal layer, 

 forming with it, beneath the ovary, a kind of small cupola. 



Fig. 535. 



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GENERATIVE ORGANS OF THf; .MARE, ISOLATED AND PARTLY OPENED. 



1, 1, Ovaries; 2, 2, Fallopian tubes ; 3, pavilion of the tube (external face); 4, ditto (inner face, 

 showing the openinsc in the middle) ; 5, ligament of the ovary ; ti. intact cornu of the uterus ; 7, 

 a cornu thrown open; 8, body of the uterus (upper face); 9, broad ligament; 10, cervix, with its 

 mucous folds; 11, cul-de-sac of the vagina; 12, interior of the vagiua, with its folds of mucous 

 membrane; 13, urinary meatus, and its valve, 14; 15, mucous fold, a vestige of the hymen; 16, 

 interior of the vulva; 17, clitoris; 18, 18, labia of the vulva; 19, inferior commissure of the 

 Tulva. 



There is also another little narrow long band outside the broad ligament, and 

 which can be traced as far as the upper inguinal ring. Anteriorly, it has a small 



