Obstetrics : the science and the art . uperior spinous processes of the ossa ilia. Beneath thefront bone, or pubis, as it is called, there is another great vacuity,shaped like an arch, which is called arch of the pubis; and, indeed,the whole bottom of the bowl or basin is wanting in the dried speci-men. Not so, however, in the recent subject. But, while the whole profession everywhere agree to regard thisorgan as ittxvs, pelvis, bacino, backenet, bassin, becken, basin, &c.,they are equally agreedto call it two pelves—an upper and lower, agreater and lesser, or atrue and false pelvis;and they d
Obstetrics : the science and the art . uperior spinous processes of the ossa ilia. Beneath thefront bone, or pubis, as it is called, there is another great vacuity,shaped like an arch, which is called arch of the pubis; and, indeed,the whole bottom of the bowl or basin is wanting in the dried speci-men. Not so, however, in the recent subject. But, while the whole profession everywhere agree to regard thisorgan as ittxvs, pelvis, bacino, backenet, bassin, becken, basin, &c.,they are equally agreedto call it two pelves—an upper and lower, agreater and lesser, or atrue and false pelvis;and they divide thesetwo pelves from eachother at the brim, en-trance, inlet or strait,as it is variously de-nominated. The stu-dent will observe, inFig:. 2, that I have cutthe pelvis transverselyby a vertical section, and I present it here in order that he may see how naturally the writershave been led thus to divide the pelvis into a greater one above and alesser one below, for it is evident that the lower portion of the drawing Fig. 40 THE PELVIS
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