Title: Anatomy, descriptive and applied
Identifier: anatomydescript00gray (find matches)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861; Spitzka, Edward Anthony, 1876-1922
Subjects: Anatomy
Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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1404 THE UBINOQENITAL ORGANS The fundus (fundus uteri) (Fig. 1178) is the upper broad extremity of the uterus. If a Hue is drawn from the uterine opening of one Fallopian tube to the other, the portion above the line is the fundus. The fundus is directly continuous with the body. The body of the uterus (corpus uteri) (Fig. 1178) gradually narrows from the fundus to the isthmus. In outline, when seen from in front or laehind, it resembles a triangle, the base being above and the apex being absent. The anterior surface (fades vesicales) is so slightly rounded as to appear flattened. It is covered by eXTCRNAL ORIFICE OF URETHRA
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RAVAGI^ PORTION CERVIX Fig. 1179,—The external genital organ of a virgin attached to the vagina, which has been isolated and opened, and a portion of the cervix uteri. (Toldt.) peritoneum (Fig. 1178), which becomes reflected from it at its isthmus to form the uterovesical pouch, which lies between the uterus and bladder (Fig. 1182). Its posterior surface is more rounded than the anterior, being convex transversely. It is covered by peritoneum throughout except along the attachments of the layers of the broad ligament (Fig. 1183), and is separated from the rectum by some convolutions of the small intestine (Fig. 1182). The peritoneum which

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