. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4333.—Solid, Bow-shaped Rudiment of a Uterus.(After Nega.) a. The ribbon shaped uterine rudi-ment; 6, ft, round ligaments; c, c. oviducts: d, Fig. 4336.—Uterus Rudimentarius Bipartitus or Bicornis. (After Rokitansky )a. Vagina; 6, tubes; c, ovaries: d, enlargement of the horn : e, round ligament;/. point of union of the two horns; g. cellular tissue traversed by muscle-fibreswhich simulate the uterus in form. indistinguishable from complete absen
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 4333.—Solid, Bow-shaped Rudiment of a Uterus.(After Nega.) a. The ribbon shaped uterine rudi-ment; 6, ft, round ligaments; c, c. oviducts: d, Fig. 4336.—Uterus Rudimentarius Bipartitus or Bicornis. (After Rokitansky )a. Vagina; 6, tubes; c, ovaries: d, enlargement of the horn : e, round ligament;/. point of union of the two horns; g. cellular tissue traversed by muscle-fibreswhich simulate the uterus in form. indistinguishable from complete absence of the the presence of a slight indefinable thickening onthe posterior surface of the bladder, or at the junction ofthe imperfectly developed broad ligaments, or again, of monstrosities, but occurs also in viable subjects, the ex-ternal genitals, vagina, tubes, ovaries, and mammae mayexhibit the same variations in structure which have beenalluded to in speaking of defectus uteri. 464 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Etiology .—The cause which produces the rudimentaryconditions just described operates during the very earli-est stages of foetal development, and as the exact time ofits appearance and the degree of its activity vary, so avariation in results, though always within certain limits,will be observed. In defectus uteri the elements from which the uterinebody is to be formed are wanting or have been obliter-. ated, but in the present instance nil /A hS^T) they have appeared, but have been•^w f<~55u more or less destroyed, at diversperiods of their development, bynutritive disturbances of/r differing intensities. 11should not be forgotten,however, that there may begrowth of eventhe lowest rudi-?i mentary ;Symptoms. —Al-though in ab-sence of the ute-rus and in atro-phy of the organthe general conformationpeculiar to the female andher desire for the oppositesex are preserved, yetthere is such an imperfectd
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