A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 301.—Appearance during lifeof the highest grade of rachitis; pseudo-osteomalaria (Pippingskjdld |. Fig. 302.—Skeleton of a rachiticdwarf 1 Medical Museum, Universityof Perms]Kama 1. nally, the diagonal conjugate is found considerably symphysis has less of a slant outward than it should have ;tin: promontory is found low and prominent ; the sacral bone issharply bent upon itself, and the pelvic canal is remarkablyshallow. On account of the increase in the conjugatosymphys-eal angle due to the lessened slant outward of the symphysis,at least two centim
A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 301.—Appearance during lifeof the highest grade of rachitis; pseudo-osteomalaria (Pippingskjdld |. Fig. 302.—Skeleton of a rachiticdwarf 1 Medical Museum, Universityof Perms]Kama 1. nally, the diagonal conjugate is found considerably symphysis has less of a slant outward than it should have ;tin: promontory is found low and prominent ; the sacral bone issharply bent upon itself, and the pelvic canal is remarkablyshallow. On account of the increase in the conjugatosymphys-eal angle due to the lessened slant outward of the symphysis,at least two centimeters should be subtracted from the diagonalconjugate. The difference between the two would be greaterwere it not for the- low situation of the promontory, which com-pensates to a certain extent for the lessened slant of the svm- ANOMALIES IX THE FORCES OF LABOR. 447 pin-sis, hut does not entirely neutralize it. If a double promon-toryis found, which in these pelves is not uncommon (Fig. 306),the measurement should be
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