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tion dividing this portion of the pelvic cavity into two 

 parts, and presents two surfaces, an anterior and a posterior, 

 and four borders, viz., a superior, which contains the Fal- 

 lopian tube; an inferior, where the lower portions of the 

 two surfaces, which are here more widely separated than 

 above, rest on the levator ani muscle and on the recto- 

 vesical fascia; an internal border, where the ligament is 

 attached to the side of the uterus, and an external one, 

 where it is attached to the obturator fascia on the side of 

 the pelvis. The structures lying between the two layers 

 of the broad ligament are : ( 1 ) The ovary and its liga- 

 ment; (2) the Fallopian tube; (3) the round ligament; 

 (4) foetal relics, viz., the parovarium (twelve to twenty 

 effete tubules of the Wolffian body) ; the duct of Gartner 

 and the hydatid of Morgagni; (5) the uterine, ovarian 

 and funicular vessels and the uterine plexus of nerves; 

 ( 6 ) loose cellular tissue, a continuation of the subperiton- 

 eal pelvic tissue; (7) involuntary muscular tissue that 

 supports the uterus and passes to it from the pelvic wall. 



The Ovary, one and a half' inches in length, by half 

 an inch in thickness, projects from the posterior surface 

 of the broad ligament. To understand its. position with 

 reference to the broad ligament, imagine that it had been 

 inserted from below upwards, between the layers of the 

 ligament, and, that on arriving near its upper border, it 

 had been pushed backwards in such a manner that its 

 surfaces were covered with the posterior layer of the peri- 

 toneum forming the ligament, and that these surfaces 

 were superior and inferior. The posterior border is, 

 therefore, free in the pelvic cavity, while the anterior is 

 attached to the subserous tissue of the broad ligament 

 and gives entrance to the blood vessels, nerves, etc., at the 

 hilum. The ovary is attached to the uterus by the utero- 

 ovarian ligament, while its outer end receives the fimbria 

 ovarica of the Fallopian tube. , 



