A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . r border of thevestibule. It is very important that the nurseshould know the exact position of the meatusurinarius, as she will frequently be called upon topass the catheter. Below the vestibule is the orifice of the vagina, canal leading to the uterus or womb. In virginsa delicate membrane, usually crescentic in shape,blocks the entrance to the vagina. This is thehymen. The hymen is usually ruptured at marriage, but Hymen,a woman may be a virgin, yet have no hymen; insome cases it persists even after marriage and
A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . r border of thevestibule. It is very important that the nurseshould know the exact position of the meatusurinarius, as she will frequently be called upon topass the catheter. Below the vestibule is the orifice of the vagina, canal leading to the uterus or womb. In virginsa delicate membrane, usually crescentic in shape,blocks the entrance to the vagina. This is thehymen. The hymen is usually ruptured at marriage, but Hymen,a woman may be a virgin, yet have no hymen; insome cases it persists even after marriage andoffers an obstruction at childbirth. A woman whohas borne children has a few fleshy projections atthe orifice of the vagina, the only remains of thehymen, called the carunculse myrtiformes. Be-tween the vulva and the anus is a mass of flesh, thespace on the surface measuring one and one-half 20 OBSTETRICAL NURSING, Perineum. inches in length. During the birth of the childthis becomes greatly distended, and thins likerubber. This is the perineum. It may be torn External Genitalia. i. The right large lip. 2. The fourchette. 3. Right nympha. 4. Urethral orifice. 6. Vestibule. 7. Orifice of vagina. 8. Hymen. veneris. 11. Anal orifice. during labor to a greater or less extent; sometimesit is completely torn into the bowel. That part ofthe perineum in the virgin which forms the pos- THE PELVIS AND GENITAL ORGANS. 21 terior border of the vulva is called the fourchette. It is merely a fold of skin and is almost always torn in a first labor. Behind the perineum is the anus or orifice of the rectum, the lower part of the Anal orifice- bowel. The vagina is a canal connecting the externalwith the internal organs of generation. The uterus Uterus-is at the top of the vagina. In front of the uterusis the bladder, and behind and to the left therectum. A secretion of mucus keeps the vagina should, however, be no discharge in a per-fectly healthy woman. Duri
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