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CHAPTER XXXII. 



THE FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS. 



343. (1) THE ovary (Fig. 141.) In the ovary, as 

 in other glands, the framework is to be distinguished 

 from the paren- 

 chyma. In the part 

 of the ovary next 

 to the hilum there 

 are numerous blood- 

 vessels, in a loose 

 fibrous connective 

 tissue, with nu- 

 merous longitudinal 

 bundles of non- 

 striped muscular 

 tissue directly con- 

 tinuous with the 

 same tissues of the 

 ligamentum latum. 

 This portion of the 

 ovary is the zona 

 vasculosa (Wal- 

 deyer). All parts of 

 the zona vasculosa 

 i.e., the bundles 

 of fibrous connec- 

 tive tissue, the 

 blood-vessels, and 

 the bundles of non- 

 striped muscular 

 tissue are traceable into the parenchyma. The stroma 

 of this latter, however, is made up of bundles of shorter 





Fig. 141. Vertical Section through the 

 Ovary of half -grown Cat. 



a, The alhuginea ; tbe germinal epithelium is not 

 distinguishable owing to the low power under 

 which the section is supposed to be viewed; 

 6, the layer of smallest Graaflan follicles and 

 ova ; c, the medium-sized follicles : d, the layer 

 of large follicles ; e, the zona vasculosa. (Atlas.) 



