The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . may become retroverted, andeven finally incarcerated in the pelvis. Later the uterus is higher than in normalgestation, since the head of the fetus cannot descend into the pelvis. In thelater months of pregnancy the uterus is far more mobile than normal on accountof the narrowing of the pelvis. Its obliquity is also increased. The patient isfrequently unable to empty the bladder owing to the pressure to which it is MATERNAL DYSTOCIA FROM OBSTRUCTED LABOR. G53 subjected. Quickening is felt early, genera
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . may become retroverted, andeven finally incarcerated in the pelvis. Later the uterus is higher than in normalgestation, since the head of the fetus cannot descend into the pelvis. In thelater months of pregnancy the uterus is far more mobile than normal on accountof the narrowing of the pelvis. Its obliquity is also increased. The patient isfrequently unable to empty the bladder owing to the pressure to which it is MATERNAL DYSTOCIA FROM OBSTRUCTED LABOR. G53 subjected. Quickening is felt early, generally by the fourth month. Pendulousabdomen is very common in contracted pelvis from the position of the long axisof the uterus, which looks either forward or to the right, and is especially markedin patients whose abdominal walls are flaccid. It is more frequently found in multigravidae than in primigra-vidae. If pendulous abdomen isnot a complication, the funduswill be much higher in positionthan normal. In labor: The painsare very irregular and their naturedepends upon the abnormal fac-.
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