The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . ones are divided into their three parts, andthe sacral vertebra? are distinct from one another (PL 29, Fig. 2). The justo-minor pelves pass by insensible gradations into the simple flat, the transversely-contracted, and the generally-contracted flat pelves. In the larger cities of theUnited States the justo-minor pelvis is very frequently encountered. It is cer-tainly as common here as is the simple flat pelvis, and if one were to judgefrom hospital patients, among whom there is a large proportion of shop-and factory-girls,
The American text-book of obstetrics for practitioners and students . ones are divided into their three parts, andthe sacral vertebra? are distinct from one another (PL 29, Fig. 2). The justo-minor pelves pass by insensible gradations into the simple flat, the transversely-contracted, and the generally-contracted flat pelves. In the larger cities of theUnited States the justo-minor pelvis is very frequently encountered. It is cer-tainly as common here as is the simple flat pelvis, and if one were to judgefrom hospital patients, among whom there is a large proportion of shop-and factory-girls, this variety of contracted pelvis would be regarded as thecommonest. Characteristics.—While it is convenient to speak of the justo-minor pelvisas the normal female pelvis in miniature, the description is not strictly accu-rate. There are peculiarities due to an arrest of development which give tothe equally generally-contracted pelvis some of the features of an infantilepelvis. The alse of the sacrum are narrower than they should be in compari- DY8TCX I \. 1*:.
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