. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. Veterinary anatomy. 408 TffE DIGESTIVE APPABATUS IN MAMMALIA. Interior.—Viewed internally, the csecum offers for study the valmdce or transverse ridges corresponding to the external furrows. We have already seen that these are due to simple circular folds, comprising in their thick- ness the three tunics of the organ, and that they are susceptible of being effaced by distention, to re-appear afterwards in varying number and position ; differing widely, in this respect, from the valvulte conniventes of the small intestine. Two orifices, pla


. The comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals. Veterinary anatomy. 408 TffE DIGESTIVE APPABATUS IN MAMMALIA. Interior.—Viewed internally, the csecum offers for study the valmdce or transverse ridges corresponding to the external furrows. We have already seen that these are due to simple circular folds, comprising in their thick- ness the three tunics of the organ, and that they are susceptible of being effaced by distention, to re-appear afterwards in varying number and position ; differing widely, in this respect, from the valvulte conniventes of the small intestine. Two orifices, placed one above the other, open on the internal surface of the cascum, at the point corr'^«Donding to the concavity of the crook. The Fig. 204. GENERAL VIEW OF THE INTESTINES OF THE HOESE ; SEEN FROM THE EIGHT SIDE, WITH THE PELVIC CURVATURE AND A PORTION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE CARRIED BEYOND THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY. a, (Esophagus; b, Right sac of the stomach; c, Small intestine, showin<T its origin, or duodenal portion encircling the base of the cjEctfrn; d, Cajoum ; e, Origin of the lai-ge colon; /, First portion of the large colon; g. Suprasternal flexure: A, Stecoud portion of the large colon ; i, Pelvic flexure; j, Third portion of the large colon; /;, Diaphragmatic flexure ; ;, Fourth portion of the large colon; m, Ter- mmation of the free colon ; n, Rectum ; o. Mesentery proper; p, Colic mesentery (meso-colon); r, Neck of the vaginal canal; s, Spermatic vessels; t, Deferent cana ; u, Bladder; v, Vesiculje seminales; x, Pelvic enlargement of the deferen canal; y, Prostate ; ^, Suspensory ligament of the penis. most inferior represents the terminal opening of the small intestine at the centre of the tlio-cwcal valve, whose presence in the domesticated animals has m consequence of a wrong appreciation of analogies, been denied; it is nothing more than the projection described as being made by the end of the small mtestme. The second opening, placed about 1* or 2 inches abo


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