. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. UTERUS—(ABNORMAL ANATOMY). retained by them after the pelvis has changed its form, may give rise to the malformation under consideration.* b. Retrqflexion exhibits the converse pecu- liarity, the body of the uterus being bent back- wards upon the neck at such an angle that the fundus occupies a position more or less deep between the cervix and rectum, filling and distending the pouch of Douglas. This condition of the uterus ought not to be con- founded with retroversion or with those retro- uterine tumours produced by in
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. UTERUS—(ABNORMAL ANATOMY). retained by them after the pelvis has changed its form, may give rise to the malformation under consideration.* b. Retrqflexion exhibits the converse pecu- liarity, the body of the uterus being bent back- wards upon the neck at such an angle that the fundus occupies a position more or less deep between the cervix and rectum, filling and distending the pouch of Douglas. This condition of the uterus ought not to be con- founded with retroversion or with those retro- uterine tumours produced by inflammation, and effusion into the cellular tissue (J>g. 433., G) at the back of the cervix, of which an account will be presently given. See p. 688. c. Lateral inflexion. — The uterine body ex- hibits occasionally an inclination to lateral curvature, so that the fundus is directed to- wards one or other side. A curvature out- wards, in the form of an arch more or less deflected from the meridian, has been shown to be the usual condition of the uterus uni- cornus. But where a tendency towards either side is shown in the otherwise normally formed organ, this appears to arise from some inequality in the development of the two uterine halves; or it may depend upon one half undergoing hypertrophy, so that in either case one uterine angle lies higher than the other, and a vertical line would divide the organ into two uneqiuil parts. The cervix is here curved as well as the body, or the latter may remain perpendicular while the body is bent so as to form an angle with the cervix. The former variety has been designated the retort-shaped uterus. Anomalies of Position. Obliquity of position, Hysteroloxia, Metro- loxica, Obliquitas uteri.—The foregoing defects should not be confounded with those devia- tions in position, without alteration of form, which constitute the various obliquities of the uterus ; — like the inflexions of the uterus they are distinguished according as t
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