. Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy. Anatomy. 1294 THE UKINO-GENITAL SYSTEM. shape. The seminal vesicles are more intimately related to the wall of the bladder than to that of the rectum. Their superior ends are, as we have seen, separated from the rectum by a portion of the recto-vesical pouch of peritoneum, and lower down the septum of fascia which intervenes between the vesicuhe seminales and the rectum is denser than that which separates them from the bladder. Each vesicula seminalis is in reality a tube bent in a tortuous manner on itself, and if the dense connective tissue which envelops
. Cunningham's Text-book of anatomy. Anatomy. 1294 THE UKINO-GENITAL SYSTEM. shape. The seminal vesicles are more intimately related to the wall of the bladder than to that of the rectum. Their superior ends are, as we have seen, separated from the rectum by a portion of the recto-vesical pouch of peritoneum, and lower down the septum of fascia which intervenes between the vesicuhe seminales and the rectum is denser than that which separates them from the bladder. Each vesicula seminalis is in reality a tube bent in a tortuous manner on itself, and if the dense connective tissue which envelops it be taken away, the length of the tube when untwisted may "be found to be as much as five inches. The tube is closed above, and a variable number of short tortuous branches come off it at different levels. The blind end of the tube usually lies at the superior and lateral extremity of the seminal vesicle, but in some cases the tubular vesicle is so beut upon itself that the blind terminal part lies against the side of the issuing duct. The development of the vesiculse seminales shows that they are to be regarded as diverticula of the ductus deferentes, from which they originally arise as small pouches. The dense tissue in which the seminal vesicles are embedded contains much unstriped muscle tissue, which sweeps round in the side wall of the recto-vesical pouch. Inferiorly this tissue is attached to the capsule of the prostate. The large veins coming from the prostatic and vesical j^lexuses are closely related to the seminal vesicles. Superior surface of bladder Lig. tim- bilic?le medium Infero-lateral area of bladder. Urethra. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cunningham, D. J. (Daniel John), 1850-1909; Robinson, Arthur, b. 1862, ed. New York, W. Wood
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