A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . etimesmuch like bone, while hypertrophy of the cervix signifies anenlargement or elongation. Hypertrophy may affect the wholecervix, or be confined to one lip of the os. It may consistof soft, spongy tissue, or be associated with induration; hence we may have hypertrophyand induration in the same exists in all stages,from the very slight, confined toeven a part of one lip, or affectingthe whole of one lip or the wholecervix. Hypertrophy may exist insmall or great degree. It mayhave th
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . etimesmuch like bone, while hypertrophy of the cervix signifies anenlargement or elongation. Hypertrophy may affect the wholecervix, or be confined to one lip of the os. It may consistof soft, spongy tissue, or be associated with induration; hence we may have hypertrophyand induration in the same exists in all stages,from the very slight, confined toeven a part of one lip, or affectingthe whole of one lip or the wholecervix. Hypertrophy may exist insmall or great degree. It mayhave the effect of causing anenlargement of the cervix lat-erally, only (see Fig. 15) givinggreatly increased thickness tothe walls of the cervix, and gen-erally accompanied with a cor-responding enlargement of theos uteri. In other cases the hypertrophy produces an elonga-tion of the cervix, without any considerable increase in itsdiameter. On introducing the uterine sound, in some cases wefind the cervical and uterine cavity to measure from fourto six inches. In women who have borne children we. Fig. No. 15.—Sub-involution and Hypertrophy of the cervix. INDURATION AND HYPERTROPHY. 163 should have a measurement of at least four inches in thecervix and uterus, or we could not denominate the caseone of hypertrophy, however much the cervix projecteddownwards, even to the extent of appearing externally. Itwould be a case of procidentia and not hypertrophy, unless themeasurement of the uterine canal showed considerable in-crease above what is normal; and, further,, simply an increasein the length of the uterine cavity, with prolapse, will notindicate hypertrophy of the cervix positively, for the gravidwomb and a condition of sub-involution would present thiscondition of elongation. (Of course, the reader will under-stand the sound is never to be introduced if there is anyprobability of pregnancy.) We must be sure that the elon-gation is due to increase of length in the cervix. The cer-v
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