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430. The Ligaments of the Visceral Layer of the 



Fascia pelvis. 



View of the Kami of the Ischium and the Bladder from behind. 



The visceral layer of the pelvic fascia (recto-vesical 

 fascia), is attached anteriorly to the back of the pubis, from which 

 it is separated by the origin of the M. levator ani ; laterally it springs 

 from the obturator fascia along a curved line passing from the upper 

 part of the obturator foramen to the ischial spine. Lying upon the 

 upper surface of the Levator ani } the visceral layer, which forms a fibrous 

 partition completely separating the pelvic cavity above from the perineal 

 space below, passes in front to the prostata and anterior surface of the 

 bladder, as Ligamenta puljo-prostatica (better pubo-vesicalia) lateralia ; in the 

 middle portion it passes to the prostate, as Ligamenta isddo-prostatica, then 

 it enters between the base of the bladder and rectum as Fascia recto- 

 vcsicalls finally in the posterior portion it reaches the outer surface of 

 the rectum as a thin layer. 



