A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . mstances, theaperture i- closed, but the depressionbetween tlie lips is easily felt, and i-precisely similar, in the impression itcommunicates to the finger, t the sen-sation experienced when the finger is applied to the tip of the nOSC. In thlS the cartilages represent the firm tissue of the lips, while the vertical in- t -rval between them corresponds to the ... i • i • I Ti i uteri. transverse -lit which constitutes the os. The characteristics above described are those of the virgin, or, asDr. Tyler Smith
A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . mstances, theaperture i- closed, but the depressionbetween tlie lips is easily felt, and i-precisely similar, in the impression itcommunicates to the finger, t the sen-sation experienced when the finger is applied to the tip of the nOSC. In thlS the cartilages represent the firm tissue of the lips, while the vertical in- t -rval between them corresponds to the ... i • i • I Ti i uteri. transverse -lit which constitutes the os. The characteristics above described are those of the virgin, or, asDr. Tyler Smith more correctly calls it. the nuiliparous pregnancy, the organ is enor usly distended, and the ana-tomical relations of the contiguous parts are greatly disturbed. Afterdelivery, the part- contract. an I regain in a great measure their originalappearance and condition, hut they aevertheless retain features of dis-similarity which generally enable the observer, on a careful examina-tion, to distinguish the uterus of a woman wh ha- been a mother. The. 62 1 ORGANS OF GENERATION. [CHAP. chief points of distinction are as follows: The weight of the organ isincreased, according bo Meckel, to about an ounce and a half; the fundus and body are rounded externally : tlie cavity of the body losesits triangular shape, and becomes much larger relatively to the os internum being agape. The arborescent folds of the cervix arc in a great measure obliterated, or at least are rendered indistinct, andthe os externum is patent. The differences in the latter are, from thefact of its being of easy access to the finger, of special importance, and consist mainly in an enlargement of the parts, and an irregularity inthe of the lips, which are now no longer smooth, hut puckeredr >und the edge of the 03, and often nodulated on the surface. Theseirregularities are due to slight lacerations of tissue which occur duringdelivery. They are always more marked in w
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