A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . y thin andmembranous (uter-us membranaceus).The body and cer-vix may exhibit thesame relative pro-portion to eachother as in the ])er-fectly developeduterus, but thewhole organ per-haps is .still defi-cient in .size andpossesses walls ofabnormal thinness,while the plica- [lal-mattt pass well upinto the cavity ofthe corpus (uterusinfantilis). Allthese forms areclosely allied withone another, andwith the least pro-nounced types of congenital malformation on the onehan
A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . y thin andmembranous (uter-us membranaceus).The body and cer-vix may exhibit thesame relative pro-portion to eachother as in the ])er-fectly developeduterus, but thewhole organ per-haps is .still defi-cient in .size andpossesses walls ofabnormal thinness,while the plica- [lal-mattt pass well upinto the cavity ofthe corpus (uterusinfantilis). Allthese forms areclosely allied withone another, andwith the least pro-nounced types of congenital malformation on the onehand and the normal adult uterus on the oilier. Theterm hypoplasia uteri may be used to include them a rule, some of tlie remaining elements of the geni-tal system show slight errors in development, and theovaries are not infrequently rudimentary, or are some-times entirely absent. The heart and the rest of the vas-cular apparatus may likewise be undeveloped. Ethhyy.—Hypoplasia uteri cannot with justice becalled a jjurely congenital condition. It is true that dur-ing the final months of embryonal life injurious infiu-. FiG. Biluoular Uterus and VaginalSeptum: Vertical Sectiou. Uiiissman.)L^, Partition which divides the uterus intotwo halves: T, tubes; t^ vapina dividedby the uterine septum prolonaed. ences, such as constricting jieritoneal adhesions, mayprevent a uterus almost completely formed from attain-ing anatomical perfection. But unhealthy systemicstates (associated with disease of the vascular or nervous
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