An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . i-viii*s p. A p. composedof a principal branchtwisted like an S at oneof its extremities, whichis conducted through therectum toward the sacro-vertebral angle, while itis otherwise straight. Onthis first branch glides acurved branch with ananterior concavity, thetop of which, introducedinto the vagina, shouldbe fixed behind the sym-physis. The space sepa-rating the free extrem-ities of the two branc


An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . i-viii*s p. A p. composedof a principal branchtwisted like an S at oneof its extremities, whichis conducted through therectum toward the sacro-vertebral angle, while itis otherwise straight. Onthis first branch glides acurved branch with ananterior concavity, thetop of which, introducedinto the vagina, shouldbe fixed behind the sym-physis. The space sepa-rating the free extrem-ities of the two branches,or the sacro-pubic diam-eter, is indicated by themetrical divisions en-graved on the principalbranch. IL, 88 (<t, 50).]—Coutoulys p. A of two metal-lic rods, the exterior andlarger being hollowedout by a longitudinalgroove in which thesecond glides. These twobranches carry at one end a perpendicular blade or square, 5 to 6ctm. high, and at the other end a crotchet, intended for movingthe two branches and separating the s(|uares. Being closed bythe coming together of the two squares, the p. is introduced intothe vagina, and the top of the posterior square ia placed on the. KINflS PELVIM-ETER. ROBERT AND COL-LINS PELVIMETER. most salient part of the promontory. The anterior square is thendrawn toward the posterior part of the pubic symphysis, and thelength of the sacro-pubic diameter is indicated by the numbersshown by the slipping of the two branches. [L, 88 (a, 50).]—Crevesp. A cord stretched from the apex of the subpubic arch to thepromontory by means of a straight, stiff rod. [L, 88 (o, 50).]—Depattls p. A modification of Baudelocques caUpers, capa-ble of being transformed into an internal p. for use at the infe-rior strait. [A, 15.]—Direct p. A p. that is simultaneously ap-plied to each extremity of t£e diameter which is to be meas-ured. [Bailly (L, 87 [o, 34]).]—Huberts p. A p. forming an an-gle of a little more than 45°, consisting of an exte


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