Identifier: textbookofveteri00flemrich (find matches)
Title: A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Fleming, George, 1833-1901
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Publisher: New York : W.R. Jenkins
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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^from the vulva posteriorly to the uterus anteriorly, the cervix or neckof which it embraces in a kind of semicircular ciil-de-sac. The rectumlies above it, and the bladder below; on each side are the ureters andthe walls of the pelvis, and posteriorly it is surrounded by adipose andloose connective tissue. When distended it is cylindrical in form, butusually its sides are in contact. Its length is variable, of course, butin a full-sized Mare it is about a foot long. It is maintained in positionanteriorly by folds of peritoneum, which attach it to the rectum aboveand to the bladder beneath, the attachment to the rectum being accom-plished through the medium of the loose connective tissue referred to.But this tissue, which also unites it to the bladder, is here close and INTERNAL ORGANS OF OENKllA TloN. 37 firm, and this fact may serve to explain why the rectum is so rarelyinvolved in displacements of the uterus, while the bladder is always
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Fig. -1. i;knkr.\tive Okgans ov the Mare: Isolated axi> Paktly OiKxkd. 1,1, OvaricH ; 2, 2, Fallo.ian Tubes ; 3, Pavilion f tlie Tub*;, Kxternal Face ;4, Ibid., Inner Face, showing the Opening in the Middle; .>, Ligament ofthe Ovary ; 6, Intact Horn of the IteruH ; 7, A Horn opened ; 8, Body of theUterus, Upper Face ; .», Broad Liiraineut; 10, Cervix, with its numerousfolds, or Palma plirala ; 11, Cnl-df-snc of the Vagina; 12, Interior of theVagina, «-ith it* Folds of M»icou« Membrane ; 1>, Urinary Meatus and itsValve, 14 ; ir>, Mucouf Fold, Ji Vestige of the Hj-men ; 16, Interior of theVulva; 17, Clitoris; 18, 18, Labia of the Vulva; H», Inferior Commissureof the Vulva. more or less so. Laterally, it is attached to the muscular and aponeu-rotic structures in the cavity of the pelvis. Internally, it is lined bya thin mucous membrane, which is always abundantly covered with 38 OBSTETPJCAL ANATOMY. mucus (in woman this mucus is acid, while that of the uterus isa

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