The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 153.—Internal Muscular LayerOF the Pregnant Uterus afterRemoval of the Two Outer , Section of the external layer. 2,Section of the middle layer. 3, Fal-lopian tubes. 4, Circular fibers ofthe horns. 5, Circular fibers of theisthmus. 6, Circular fibers of thecervix. 7, Orifice of the external os.— (Henle.) diameter is large enough to accommodate five or six red corpuscles side by have a delicate endothelial wall, which, together with the chorionic epi-. FiG. 154.—Middle Muscular La
The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine . Fig. 153.—Internal Muscular LayerOF the Pregnant Uterus afterRemoval of the Two Outer , Section of the external layer. 2,Section of the middle layer. 3, Fal-lopian tubes. 4, Circular fibers ofthe horns. 5, Circular fibers of theisthmus. 6, Circular fibers of thecervix. 7, Orifice of the external os.— (Henle.) diameter is large enough to accommodate five or six red corpuscles side by have a delicate endothelial wall, which, together with the chorionic epi-. FiG. 154.—Middle Muscular Layer of the Pregnant Uterus, i, Left tube. 2, Righttube. 3, Fundus uteri. 4, Superficial muscular layer incised and turned back. - fasciculse of the middle layer. 6, EUiptical openings occupied by the uterinesinuses.—(Henle.) thelium, alone separates the fetal from the maternal blood in the intervillousspaces. The uterine artery is much enlarged during pregnancy, but relativelyless so than the ovarian. As pregnancy advances it becomes more tortuous 108 PHYSIOLOGICAL PREGNANCY. its course being less direct, and its attachment to the uterine wall loosened.*Its level in the pelvis will depend on the upward growth of the uterus, as wellas on its attachment to the pelvic wall, and its relation to the outer border of thebroad ligament is lost in the latter part of pregnancy. Its relation to the ureteris the same in pregnant and non-pregnant uteri (Fig. 156). The ovarian arteryis greatly enlarged in pregnancy. Its course from the point where it reac
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