Gynaecology for students and practitioners . Fig. 10. The Endometrium of a Nullipara (high power). The glands arerelatively scanty, and no branchings are seen. is smooth, polished, and pale yellowish-pink in colour ; with a lensthe openings of glands may be seen upon it. In the cerv x (cervicalendometrium) it is thrown into transverse folds with interveningsulci; a median ridge runs along the anterior and posterior walls,and at these ridges the transverse folds end. The whole arrangementroughly resembles the branchings of a tree, and the name arbor vitoswas given to it by the old anatomists. T
Gynaecology for students and practitioners . Fig. 10. The Endometrium of a Nullipara (high power). The glands arerelatively scanty, and no branchings are seen. is smooth, polished, and pale yellowish-pink in colour ; with a lensthe openings of glands may be seen upon it. In the cerv x (cervicalendometrium) it is thrown into transverse folds with interveningsulci; a median ridge runs along the anterior and posterior walls,and at these ridges the transverse folds end. The whole arrangementroughly resembles the branchings of a tree, and the name arbor vitoswas given to it by the old anatomists. The average thickness of theendometrium in a healthy adult woman is about 2 mm. After theclimacteric it undergoes shrinkage. PLATE I. Normal Endometrium (Premenstrual Phase). Stained byMallorys polychrome methylene blue. The basement-membraneof the gland-epithelium is stained deep blue ; the network ofcollagen-fibres in the stroma is stained a paler blue, whilst thestroma-ceils are orange-coloured. The blood-corpuscles in thecapillaries are stained yellow. Note the fern-like j)rojections intothe gland, and the mucus (stained blue) in the gland-lumen. Id face pcu/c 16 THE UTERUS 17 The endometrium of the body of the uterus has no submucous layer,and its glands penetrate into the muscular wall, so that although itcan be partially scraped away, it will not peel off. The structures
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