. Journal of anatomy. continuous with each other and a well-marked uvula. Thebase gives no indication of the asymmetry of this bladder. Doubtless ifthis bladder had become overfilled it would have passed upwards, and tothe left of the middle line, and not to the right. Speaking from memory,I should saj^ that bladders when overfilled in many cases do not keepaccurately to the mid-line, but pass upwards to the right. No. 9.—Male, aged 48, displacing 5^ ounces of water : shows a tjpicalbladder, with slight obliquity upwards and to the left. There is a small 368 Mr A. R. Thompson prostatic depress
. Journal of anatomy. continuous with each other and a well-marked uvula. Thebase gives no indication of the asymmetry of this bladder. Doubtless ifthis bladder had become overfilled it would have passed upwards, and tothe left of the middle line, and not to the right. Speaking from memory,I should saj^ that bladders when overfilled in many cases do not keepaccurately to the mid-line, but pass upwards to the right. No. 9.—Male, aged 48, displacing 5^ ounces of water : shows a tjpicalbladder, with slight obliquity upwards and to the left. There is a small 368 Mr A. R. Thompson prostatic depression. The ureteric ridges are well marked and trigone looks forwards as well as downwards. Xo. 10.—A female, aged 52, displacing 5^ ounces of fluid; not quitecomplete at the fundus; the horizontal surface thus formed, and the. Bin- Fk;. 2.—Group II. direction of the catheter, help us to place the bladder cast in its correctposition. In this specimen the adaptation of the shape of the bladder tothe other pelvic viscera is particularly well marked. The lateral expansionsoutwards, downwards, and backwards are also particularly well is much more of the bladder situated on the right than the left long axis of the bladder is directed backwards and to the right. Thereare signs of a ureteric ridge, and perhaps the ureteric oritice on the left Tlie Form of the Urinary Bladder 369 side in actually looking outwards in what may be called the pararectalfossa of the bladder. I have no hesitation in regarding this cast as atrue representation of the form of this subjects bladder. I have comeacross such cases clinically. They are difficult cases to cystoscope, and inwhom to pass ureteric catheters. One could understand such a bladdercausing great trouble to the obstetrician, gynaecologist, or surgeo
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