Archive image from page 622 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana05todd Year: 1859 OVARY — (NORMAL ANATOMY). 547 a much earlier period than that at which the power of procreation ceases in the other sex. In a physiological sense, therefore, the uterus, as well as every other part of the generative apparatus, must be regarded as an appendage of the ovary ; and the title ' Ute- rus and its Appendages'' is employed, in ac- cordance with ordinary usage only, as the heading of this Article, in which it is pro- posed to consider the structure and
Archive image from page 622 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana05todd Year: 1859 OVARY — (NORMAL ANATOMY). 547 a much earlier period than that at which the power of procreation ceases in the other sex. In a physiological sense, therefore, the uterus, as well as every other part of the generative apparatus, must be regarded as an appendage of the ovary ; and the title ' Ute- rus and its Appendages'' is employed, in ac- cordance with ordinary usage only, as the heading of this Article, in which it is pro- posed to consider the structure and func- tions of the entire female generative organs as they exist in Man. OVARY. NORMAL ANATOMY. (SYN. Ovarium, Testis Muliebris, Lat. ; Oraja, Ital.; Ovaire, Fr.; Eicrstock, Germ. ; Eijerstok, Dutch.) The ovaries (Jig. 368. b, b) constitute two follicular glands appropriated to the formation of the female generative element. They are perfectly closed, resembling in this respect the ductless glands. Each, however, is furnished with its proper excretory duct, (fig. 368. c, e) between which and the gland a temporary connection is established, at certain intervals, during that period of life over which the re- productive faculty extends. Form. — The ovary is not usually fully de- veloped until some time after the establish- ment of puberty. It is then of an oval form Fig. 369. Ovary of a young adult virgin, before the surface Jirts become scarred by repeated discharges of ova. (Ad Nat.) a, distal, and b, proximal extremity; c, superior, and d, inferior border. In the centre is laid open a Graafian follicle from which an ovum had recently escaped by spontaneous rupture. (fig. 368. b, and fig. 369.), flattened on its sides, and somewhat resembling the testis in figure, but rarely or never, in a state of health, attaining to the full size of that organ. The following division may be made of its For the comparative anatomy, as well as for the general treatment of the subject
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