. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ter repeat-ed pregnancies. Oftenthere is little change inthe organ until near thetime of puberty. The body gradually en-larges until it equals andfinally exceeds the is probable that theuterus continues to en-large slightly in well-nourished women formany years, even if theyhave never borne children(Fig. 4470). The cavity of the ute-rus in childhood is nearlyan equilateral triangle.* but as puberty approaches the walls of the body become thicker and enc
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. ter repeat-ed pregnancies. Oftenthere is little change inthe organ until near thetime of puberty. The body gradually en-larges until it equals andfinally exceeds the is probable that theuterus continues to en-large slightly in well-nourished women formany years, even if theyhave never borne children(Fig. 4470). The cavity of the ute-rus in childhood is nearlyan equilateral triangle.* but as puberty approaches the walls of the body become thicker and encroach uponthe cavity, giving to it the strongly incurved adult out-line. If the woman has not borne children, this peculi-arity also increases slightly as age advances. The lining of the uterus in infancy lies in folds some-what like the palmse plicatae. They gradually disappearon the approach of pubertv. Considerable doubt still exists as to the microscopicstructure of the mucous membrane of the infantile ute-rus. Wyder4 states that in children the uterus is lined 572 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Fig. 4486.—Os Uteri in Old ) (After with cylindrical epithelium without cilia as far as theexternal os. Nothing is known as to the glandular structure. The walls are composed of undeveloped muscular tis-sue ; they consist of granules and cells in various stagesof development, fromthe round granular cor-puscle tb the elongatedfusiform cell — all ofwhich are embeddedin a semitransparentformless matrix. After the meno-pause, the uterus ret-rogrades. The bodyatrophies until, in ex-treme age, it is scarcelylarger than that of achild. The cervix re-mains more constant,but still atrophiessomewhat, and the lips become thin and leave a wideropening between them. When a vaginal examination ismade, the finger is received into a funnel-shaped os lies at the bottom of this funnel and is diminished(see Fig. 4486) so as sometimes to barely admi
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