III. 



THE OVIDUCTS. 



(Fallopian Tubes.) 



The subjoined description of the Fallopian tubes has been executed 

 by Mr. Griinwald, who has worked under my direction. STBICKER. 



THE OVIDUCT. The oviduct in Man is attached to the upper 

 and lateral part of the uterus, behind and somewhat above the 

 origin of the ligamentum teres. It runs outwards along the 

 upper free border of the ligamentum latum, which constitutes 

 a kind of mesentery for it,* and is partly straight and partly 

 sinuous. The straight segment (isthmus, Barkow) is near the 

 uterus, the looped part ampulla (Henle) is more external. 



The course of the Fallopian tubes varies in Mammals. They 

 are sometimes looped immediately after their origin from the 

 uterus, and then run straight towards the ovary, though some- 

 times the reverse obtains. Sometimes they form a series of 

 small curves along their whole extent, or they are contorted 

 into a knot, and intertwine with one another as in the Rat,f 

 the Simia silvanus, and to a still more marked extent in the 

 Opossum.:}: 



The tubes are not always of equal length; sometimes the 

 right and sometimes the left is the longer. The isthmus is 



* Henle, Lefirbuch der Anatomie. 



t Meyerstein, Henle and Pfeuffer's Zeitschrift, 3 Reihe, Band xxiii. , 

 p. 63. Ueber die Eileiter einigen Saugethiere, (On the Fallopian tubes of 

 some Mammals. 



J Blumenbach, Vergleichende Anatomie, p. 486. 



