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Identifier: scienceamidw00lusk (find matches)
Title: The science and art of midwifery
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Lusk, William Thompson, 1838-1897
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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Fig. 24.—Double uterus arid vagina from a girl aged nineteen (Eisenmann). a, doublevaginal orifice with double hymen ; b, meatus urethra ; ?, clitoris; d, urethra; e, <?, thedouble vagina;/,/, uterine orifices; g, (j, cervical portions; A, h, bodies and cornua;*, *, ovaries; k, k, Fallopian tubes; if, 2, round ligaments ; m, m, broad ligaments.(Courty.) A depression at the fundus marks the point of union between theducts of Miiller. Two cornua, or horns, are thus distinguishable uponthe external surface of the uterus. About the eighth or ninth monththe convex fundus is developed, and the cornua disappear externally,though all through life they are traceable upon the inner surface inlateral sections of the uterus (vide Fig. 15, p. 21). Before the differentiation of sex has taken place, the externalorgans of generation present the following appearances : Two ridges, 32 PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY.
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ay a/ Fig. 25.—Uterus bicornis, double cavity and double vagina, from a girl seventeen years ofage. c, cervical portions united together, presenting the appearance of a single cervix ;d, d, the two cornua. (Schroeder.)
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