. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. rue, ex-cept on the columns, and, even there, not in the commonsense of the word erectile. It forms an organ whichcloses the vagina and offers some resistance, but which, 562 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. unlike the resistance of true erectile tissue, is easilyovercome by pressing the blood out of the organ. The variously shaped projec-tions above mentioned contain aplexus of large veins ; the connec-tive tissue between these vesselsi
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. rue, ex-cept on the columns, and, even there, not in the commonsense of the word erectile. It forms an organ whichcloses the vagina and offers some resistance, but which, 562 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. unlike the resistance of true erectile tissue, is easilyovercome by pressing the blood out of the organ. The variously shaped projec-tions above mentioned contain aplexus of large veins ; the connec-tive tissue between these vesselsincludes bundles of uustriped mus-cular cells derived from the mus-cular coat, as mentioned have thus an arrangement sim-ilar to a cavernous tissue. A sec-Fio. 44fil.—A Piece of Mu- ond plexus of veins is situated in cous Membrane from the theSubmilCOUS tissue wllOSemesllCS &hef^hfflat are elongated and parallel with the ed Glands. (After Henle.) long axis of the vagina. The connective tissue in whichthe above-named plexus venosus vaginalis is situated—thatis, the plexus outside the muscular coat—contains nu-. 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
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