A manual of practical obstetrics . mote the safeentrance of the diminutive germ-cell into the trumpet-shapedmouth of the tube, from whence it is conveyed, by peristalticmotion of the canal, into the uterus; this transmission of thegerm is also assisted by the cilia of the epithelium which wavetoward the womb. The waving of the cilia is said also to pro-duce a current, toward the tube, of the fluid covering the inner THE OVARIES. 61 surface of the peritoneum near the fimbriated entrance, so thatthe ovule, when not at once received by the tube, may pass-ively float into it afterward upon this mo
A manual of practical obstetrics . mote the safeentrance of the diminutive germ-cell into the trumpet-shapedmouth of the tube, from whence it is conveyed, by peristalticmotion of the canal, into the uterus; this transmission of thegerm is also assisted by the cilia of the epithelium which wavetoward the womb. The waving of the cilia is said also to pro-duce a current, toward the tube, of the fluid covering the inner THE OVARIES. 61 surface of the peritoneum near the fimbriated entrance, so thatthe ovule, when not at once received by the tube, may pass-ively float into it afterward upon this moving fluid. The Ovaries.—They are two in number (rarely three), andare placed one on each side of the womb between the posteriorand anterior layers of the broad ligament, behind and belowthe Fallopian tube. The folds of broad ligament form for theovary a sort of mesentery, and between its two layers thevessels and nerves pass to the organ. The ovary is connectedto the trumpet-shaped end of the Fallopian tube by a single Fig. Relations of ovary with uterus and Fallopian tube. The two lines inclosea V-shaped bit of the ovary which is represented, largely magnified, in thenext figure. Both figures are, of course, diagrammatic. fimbria, and to the uterus by the fibro-muscular ligament ofthe ovary, already described. Its anterior margin is attachedto the posterior surface of the anterior fold of the broad liga-ment, while the remainder of the surface, except at the hilumwhere the bloodvessels enter, is covered by the posterior layerof the same ligament. It is one inch and a half in length, 62 INTERNAL ORGANS OF GENERATION three-quarters of an inch wide, and one-third of an inch , from one to two drachms. It is an elongated, oval-shaped body, flattened from above downward, and hence saidto be almond-shaped. Its function is ovulation—that is tosay, the production, development, maturation, and dischargeof ovules. Hence the ovaries are said to be the essentialorgans
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