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UTERUS AND ITS APPENDAGES. 



exhibiting a section of several simple cysts of 

 nearly equal size ; whilst the left ovary (6) 

 shows a similar alteration of texture, the 



organ being still unopened, and exhibiting 

 numerous small sacculi which have here begun 

 to project above the surface. 



Fiff. 393. 



a, right ovary, exhibiting numerous unilocular cysts, consisting of enlarged Graafian vesicles; b 

 "left ovary similarly affected, but unopened ; c, uterus. (After Hooper.} 



Multilocular, Compound, or Proliferous Cysts. 

 In these a second, or, it may be, a third, 

 order of smaller cysts are developed, within 

 or upon the walls of a larger or parent sac. 

 From these walls the secondary cysts, at a 

 comparatively early period of their growth, 

 are seen projecting inwardly in hemispherical 

 form, arranged along the parietes of the sac, 

 from which they commonly spring by broad 



bases. These secondary cysts are invariably 

 and permanently attached to and continuous 

 with the walls of the superior cyst. They 

 are covered by a continuation of the same 

 membrane which lines the principal sac, and 

 which is reflected over them in the same man- 

 ner that the heart is invested by the reflected 

 pericardium, or the testis by the tunica va- 

 ginalis.* 



Fig. 394. 



The left ovary distended into one large cyst, into the interior of which project numerous smaller cysts of a 

 secondary order. To the right of the figure is the uterus. (Ad Nat.) 



* Hodgldn, Lectures on Serous and Mucous Membranes. Lect. viii. 



