Manual of gynecology . elvic floor differs in having in it the cleftknown as the vagina. Then, further, women have to undergo parturitionin which the child is born through the vagina, which is then greatly dis-tended. At the same time a woman has resting on her pelvic floor thesame abdominal viscera as the male, and her pelvic floor is also subjectedto the same strain from intra-abdominal pressure. Thus we have to ex-plain how the female pelvic floor has been constructed so as to allow ofparturition and yet remain strong enough to resist ordinary intra-abdom-inal pressure. The question is a st
Manual of gynecology . elvic floor differs in having in it the cleftknown as the vagina. Then, further, women have to undergo parturitionin which the child is born through the vagina, which is then greatly dis-tended. At the same time a woman has resting on her pelvic floor thesame abdominal viscera as the male, and her pelvic floor is also subjectedto the same strain from intra-abdominal pressure. Thus we have to ex-plain how the female pelvic floor has been constructed so as to allow ofparturition and yet remain strong enough to resist ordinary intra-abdom-inal pressure. The question is a structural or architectural one. We studyit in this present chapter just as we would study the structure of a box orchair. In order to understand this question, we must look at the pelvic floorin sagittal mesial section as at Fig. 40. In this view we see the pelvic flooror diaphragm stretching from symphysis pubis to sacrum. The anus is tobe imagined closed as in life. The first thing to note is the vagina, which PLATE 1. «» %
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