A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . vity often assumes when ossification is retarded, or whenever any diseasealters and softens the bones. Another function of the pelvis is to inclose and protect the bladder, rectum,and semioal vesicles of the male; the uterus, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries in thefemale. During gestation, it sustains and gives a proper direction to the womb;and in labor, it affords a passage to the child. ARTICLE TV. OF THE PELVIS, C
A theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and parturition and the attentions required by the child from birth to the period of weaning . vity often assumes when ossification is retarded, or whenever any diseasealters and softens the bones. Another function of the pelvis is to inclose and protect the bladder, rectum,and semioal vesicles of the male; the uterus, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries in thefemale. During gestation, it sustains and gives a proper direction to the womb;and in labor, it affords a passage to the child. ARTICLE TV. OF THE PELVIS, COVERED BY THE SOFT PARTS. It will not suffice to study the pelvis as found in the skeleton alone, forthe changes produced in its form and dimensions in the living female, by thearrangement of the soft parts, also require our special attention. Being continuous above with the abdomen, the great pelvis incloses andsupports the mass of the intestines, and affords points of attachment by its wallsto two orders of muscles. The one destined to form the inclosure of the bellyfills the large opening exhibited in front, and thus constitutes the anterior 52 FEMALE ORGANS OF Pelvis, with the soft parts seen from A section of the aorta, b. The vena cava The internal iliac artery, arising together with d, the ex-ternal iliac, from the primitive iliac trunk, e. External iliacvein. f. The iliacus internus, and g, the psoas magnus mus-cle*. H. The rectum. I. The uterus with its The bladder, the fundus of which is depressed so as tobring the womb into view. abdominal wall; the extensibility of which, in comparison with the resistance of the posterior plane, accounts rea-dily for the tendency of tbe uterusto incline forward in the advancedstage of gestation. The others,two in number, are placed in theiliac fossaa; they are the iliacusinternus, and the psoas magnusmuscles, which, from being situ-ated on the lateral parts of theabdominal strait, chan
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