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THE FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 



assume a pampiniform arrangement around the artery. The right ends in the vena 

 cava, the kft in the renal vein. 



The funicular artery is an offset of the vesical. It joins the round ligament 

 at the internal ring, and divides into ascending and descending branches, the former 

 running backwards in the substance of the ligament as far as the angle of the uterus, 

 Avhere it connnunicates with the ovarian and uterine; the latter passing with the 

 hgament through the inguinal canal into the labium, there anastomosing with the 

 external pudic. It is accomiianied by its vein. 



The lymphatics (fig. 643 ) of the uterus and Fallopian tubes form plexuses in 

 the mucous membrane, in the muscular walls, and beneath the peritoneum. Those 

 of the ovary originate in the jierifollicular tissue around the Graafian vesicles, and 

 escape at the hilum. The efferent vessels from these three organs may be divided 



Fig. 643.— Diagram of the Aktekies and Lymphatics of the Female Generative 



Oegaxs. 



Lymphnlics of hroatl lignment 



{to lumbar yiantU) OVARY 



FALLOPIAN TUBE 



Funicular lymphatics 

 {to inguinal glands) 



Vttriiie and vaginal lymphatic, 

 (to pelvic glands) 



Vulvar lymphatics 

 (to inguinal glands) 



Transverse periuaeal artery 



into three groups with intercommunicating territories. (1") The first, including 

 those of the body of the uterus, those of the ovary, and those of the Fallopian 

 tube, unite l)y the side of the ovarian vessels and run with the veins to terminate 

 in the prevertebral glands in front of the aorta and vena cava; (2) the second, 

 those of the cervix uteri, form two trunks which run along the base of the broad 

 ligament with the uterine vein to end in the pelvic glands which lie beneath the 

 bifurcation of the iliac artery; (3) the third, those of the round ligament, follow 

 tliis structure and end in the inguinal or lower iliac glands. Here as elsewhere the 

 lymphatics are collateral with the veins. 



The nerves of the uterus are derived from the third and fourth sacral, the 

 hypogastric ))lexus of the sympathetic, and from the renal plexus, which also sup- 

 plies the ovaries and oviduct. 



