A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 407.—Showing separation of the placenta with external bleeding (Dickinson). Premature Detachment of a Normally Situated Placenta.— I heplacenta may become detached during pregnancy or before thethird stage of labor, though it occupy a normal position near thefundus uteri. The necessary consequence is hemorrhage, often called accidental. to distinguish it from the unavoidablehemorrhage of placenta praevia. If the lower margin of tin- pla-centa is detached, the blood separates the membranes from theuterine wall and escapes externally. The bleeding may, how-ever, b


A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 407.—Showing separation of the placenta with external bleeding (Dickinson). Premature Detachment of a Normally Situated Placenta.— I heplacenta may become detached during pregnancy or before thethird stage of labor, though it occupy a normal position near thefundus uteri. The necessary consequence is hemorrhage, often called accidental. to distinguish it from the unavoidablehemorrhage of placenta praevia. If the lower margin of tin- pla-centa is detached, the blood separates the membranes from theuterine wall and escapes externally. The bleeding may, how-ever, be entirely concealed (i) if the center of the placenta isalone detached; (2) if the upper margin is detached and theblood accumulates between the membranes and the- uterine wall ; LABOR COMPLICA TED BY At CIDENTS AND DISEASES. 535 (3) if the membranes arc ruptured far from the internal os andthe blood mingles with the liquor amnii ; (4) if the cervix is ob-structed by a blood-clot, the membranes, or the presenting part


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