. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ametritis. To support the uterus, plugs of cottonsoaked in glycerine, placed in the anterior vaginal cul-de-sac, are very useful in reducing the sensitiveness of theparts and to test the relief obtained by lifting the a pessary, Gehruqgs and Graily Hewitts are thebest. Vide Figs. 4303 and 4304. Anteflexion. Pathology and Etiology.—Anteflexionis, strictly speaking, a distortion of the uterus, and con-sists in the bending forward of the body or cervix, o
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ametritis. To support the uterus, plugs of cottonsoaked in glycerine, placed in the anterior vaginal cul-de-sac, are very useful in reducing the sensitiveness of theparts and to test the relief obtained by lifting the a pessary, Gehruqgs and Graily Hewitts are thebest. Vide Figs. 4303 and 4304. Anteflexion. Pathology and Etiology.—Anteflexionis, strictly speaking, a distortion of the uterus, and con-sists in the bending forward of the body or cervix, orboth. As before mentioned, tbe normal uterus is more orless anteflexed. The pathological condition is merely anexaggeration of the normal, and there is a great differ-ence of opinion as to where the normal flexion ends andwhere the pathological begins. The seat of the flexionis usually where the cervix joins the body. This, however, may be somewhat higher or lower(Figs. 4293 and 4295). The uterus may be in varying de-grees of rotation or version, and at the same time ante-flexed (Fig. 4294). Every possible degree of flexion. Fig. 4293.—Anteflexion of Uterus. (Munde.) may be found, from a very slight bend to one where theuterus is rolled up like a ball. Anteflexion may be congenital or acquired. In thecongenital form (the commonest and most troublesome),the uterus is usually small and imperfectly developed,with a small pointed cervix and narrow external and in-ternal os. There is also another degree of this formwhich might be called anteflexion due to arrested devel-opment. Acquired anteflexion is primarily due to wantof muscular tone in the uterus itself. This, as abovementioned, has been called undue softening of theuterus due to malnutrition. According to Dr. Hewitt,when this undue softening is present, any sudden in-crease of abdominal pressure, such as might be causedby a fall, or even a gradual pressure, may often bend theuterus forward on itself. According to Schultz
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