Female Organs of Generation, 



Osthim tubae 

 abdom. 



|j Pdlmae plicatae 

 1?. Arbor vitae 



Lab. moy. c^ 



Columna, pi i car. 

 anter. 



Warn 



fjM Hymen 



Praeput. tlitorid. 



415. Generative Organs of a New-Born Girl. 



The uterus laid open in the posterior median line, the vagina in the 

 left lateral line. Natural size. 



The w o m b, Uterus, is a hollow, muscular organ, situated between 

 the rectum and urinary bladder; it is pear-shaped, flattened from before 

 backwards. The fund us is the upper broad extremity of the organ; 

 the body, Corpus, gradually narrows as it extends from the fundus 

 to the neck, Cervix s. Cottum ; the junction of the body and neck is, 

 especially in younger persons, marked by a constriction. The cervix 

 projects into the upper end of the vagina, and this projecting portion 

 is called the vaginal part, Portio vaginalis uteri. The broad 1 i g a- 

 m e n t s, Lit/amenta laid, pass from the sides of the uterus to the lateral 

 walls of the pelvis ; the round ligaments, Liyamenta rotunda, con- 

 tinuations of the uterus substance, are enclosed in the anterior layer of 

 the broad ligaments (see Fig. 412). The round ligaments pass through 

 the inguinal canal to the fore part of the pubic symphisis, and become 

 lost in the Lalla majora. Besides the broad ligaments, the peritoneum 

 forms ligaments between the bladder and uterus, tin; two anterior, Ijiya- 

 iiicnta vesico-uterina, and between the rectum and uterus, the two posterior, 

 Ligamenta recto-uterina. 



