. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. the submucous layer. There are also numerous lym-phatic vessels connected in net-works in the muscularcoat. The efferent vessels lead into a rich plexus oflarge lymphatic trunks with saccular dilatations situatedin the adventitia. The nerve-branches form a plexus, in the nodes ofwhich are contained ganglionic swellings. In the hu-man subject their termination in papillae has not beenrecognized, but in the rabbit the vaginal tunics are sup-plied with terminal bulb
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. the submucous layer. There are also numerous lym-phatic vessels connected in net-works in the muscularcoat. The efferent vessels lead into a rich plexus oflarge lymphatic trunks with saccular dilatations situatedin the adventitia. The nerve-branches form a plexus, in the nodes ofwhich are contained ganglionic swellings. In the hu-man subject their termination in papillae has not beenrecognized, but in the rabbit the vaginal tunics are sup-plied with terminal bulbs and Pacinian bodies (Krause). The uterus is a thick-walled, hollow muscular or-gan, in shape somewhat like an hour-glass, flattenedfrom before backward. The constriction is nearly in themiddle, and divides the organ into two portions : theneck or cervical portion, and the body or corpus uteri. The neck is thickest in the middle and decreasesabove and below ; it resembles a flattened ellipsoid. The outer borders of the body are slightly curved, but. (Emil Beau.) merous bundles of un-striped muscular cells, de-rived from the circularstratum, and hence this plexus alsoresembles cavernous tissue. The mucous membrane of the va-gina is usually described as withoutsecreting glands ; v. Preuschen, how-ever, has described mucous glands init, lined at their fundus with ciliatedepithelium. Henning also describestubular glands in the mucous mem-brane, especially of the fornix and in-troitus vaginae ; in the rest of the organthey are very rare (Klein). Theseobservations lack confirmation. Notwithstanding the absence ofglands, the vagina is bathed with anacid mucus. In some cases, at least,the vagina has organs which resemblethe agminated glands of the small in-testine. Henle describes such struct-ures in the vagina of a girl eighteenyears of age. They were low prominences with circu-lar bases and a central depression to 2 mm. (^ to fainch) in diameter. Part were single, part were arra
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