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will find that he can quite easily separate the rectum from the 

 vagina with his finger, and that intervening between the two is the 

 recto-vaginal layer of fascia whichUie previously exposed from 

 above. 



Before terminating his study of the visceral layer of the 



Inferior mesenteric 

 artery 



Pelvic col 



Vagina ' 

 Ureter ' 

 Bladder 



Visceral pelvic fascia -*" 



Labium minus 



M. levator ani 

 Vagina 

 Urethra 

 Tubercle of Vagina 



FIG. 225. Dissection of the Pelvis of a multiparous female, showing the 

 relations of the Bladder to the Uterus and Vagina, the relations of the 

 Vagina to the Urethra and Broad Ligaments, and the relations of the 

 Ureters to the Broad Ligaments and Vagina. 



pelvic fascia the student should note that the floor of the pelvic 

 cavity of the female is formed, as in the male, by the levatores 

 ani and the coccygei muscles, and the upper and lower fascial 

 layers of the urogenital diaphragm, but it is pierced by three 

 canals instead of two, viz., the urethra and the anal passage, 

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