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Obstetrics : the science and the art . bits the foetal surface of the placenta. The umbilical cord, containingits two arteries and its vein, is seen reaching the placenta at its dividing its vessels into numerous branches, which radiate towardsthe circumference. In other animals, as the ruminants, the tufts areseparated from each other and distributed to different parts of thewhole chorion, so as to make a great number of placentas. In certainother genera, the tufts consist of zones, surrounding the oval ovum;or they are scattered everywhere, like a paste, over the entire super-lici
Obstetrics : the science and the art . bits the foetal surface of the placenta. The umbilical cord, containingits two arteries and its vein, is seen reaching the placenta at its dividing its vessels into numerous branches, which radiate towardsthe circumference. In other animals, as the ruminants, the tufts areseparated from each other and distributed to different parts of thewhole chorion, so as to make a great number of placentas. In certainother genera, the tufts consist of zones, surrounding the oval ovum;or they are scattered everywhere, like a paste, over the entire super-licies of the ovum. To possess a gravid womb at term, and enjoy an opportunity toexamine it leisurely, is to be what Noortwyck calls rarissimum Jioeoijwlium mactus. Even in London, Professor Owen appears to havewaited :< »ng before obtaining such a privilege; and Dr. William Huntersays, tl opportunities of depicting the human pregnant uterus atleisure, very rarely occur. Indeed, to most anatomists, if they havehappened at all, it has
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