Gynaecology for students and practitioners . *?*>?« V. Fig. 136. Scraping fkom the Uterus in a Case of fragment of decidual tissue is seen upon the surface of the endometrium. subject. Before puberty the proportion is muscle 2, fibrous tissue 3 ;after puberty it becomes muscle 3, fibrous tissue 2 ; after the meno-pause the proportion again becomes muscle 2, fibrous tissue 3, or theamount of muscle may be even less than that. The greater theproportion of fibrous tissue in the uterus the more does the processof involution tend to become incomplete. Fertility. Each succeeding
Gynaecology for students and practitioners . *?*>?« V. Fig. 136. Scraping fkom the Uterus in a Case of fragment of decidual tissue is seen upon the surface of the endometrium. subject. Before puberty the proportion is muscle 2, fibrous tissue 3 ;after puberty it becomes muscle 3, fibrous tissue 2 ; after the meno-pause the proportion again becomes muscle 2, fibrous tissue 3, or theamount of muscle may be even less than that. The greater theproportion of fibrous tissue in the uterus the more does the processof involution tend to become incomplete. Fertility. Each succeeding pregnancy results in the depositionof an excess of elastic tissue in the uterus, with a loss in the relativeproportion of muscle {see p. 421). Accordingly a slight and permanentenlargement of the uterus occurs in all women who have had severalchildren. In the great majority of cases of sub-involution which come underobservation, arrest of the process of involution is not the only patho- SENILE ENDOMETRITIS 251 logical factor. It is pro
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