A system of gynecology . tuated in the cavum pelvis subperitoneale, althoughthe anterior surface of the bladder, the anterior aspect of the cervix,the anterior fornix vaginae, and the lower two-thirds of the rectum are 206 THE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE PELVIC ORG ASS. the uncovered portions that lie in this apace. The peritoneum is capa-ble of a considerable amount of distension, so as to accommodate itselfto the variable size and position of each organ to which it is it is affirmed by some writers that the lining of the anteriorabdominal wall immediately above the symphysis is actua
A system of gynecology . tuated in the cavum pelvis subperitoneale, althoughthe anterior surface of the bladder, the anterior aspect of the cervix,the anterior fornix vaginae, and the lower two-thirds of the rectum are 206 THE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE PELVIC ORG ASS. the uncovered portions that lie in this apace. The peritoneum is capa-ble of a considerable amount of distension, so as to accommodate itselfto the variable size and position of each organ to which it is it is affirmed by some writers that the lining of the anteriorabdominal wall immediately above the symphysis is actually strippedoff by the bladder as it rises in extreme distension. Less probableis the theory of Josephs, that, as the viscus tills, it deprives the ante-rior surface of the uterus of a portion of its serous Polk has studied the changes in the relative position of the pelvicperitoneum occasioned by The principal alteration seemsto consist in the elevation of the broad ligaments above the level which. »M. levator anil Cross-section of the Pelvis, showing the Peritoneal and Subperitoneal Cavities (Luschka). they occupy in the nulliparous woman. Hart and Barbour, reasoningfrom the appearances seen in frozen sections, maintain that duringparturition the peritoneum is drawn off from the bladder. Savage issceptical on this point. Without stopping to discuss a matter which isstill sub judice, it may at least be said that the attachment of theserous membrane to the lower part of the anterior abdominal walland to the fundus and posterior surface of the bladder is less inti- 1 Beitrag zur J£tiologie der Uterus-flexionen auf Grand anatomischer Unter-suchung. u. Klin. Beobachtung, Beitrag :»/• Geburish. »/«/ Gynakrtogie, Bd. ii., 1S79. 2 Observations upon the Anatomy of the Female Pelvis, X T. Med. Journ., THE PELVIC PERITONEUM. 207 mate than elsewhere, so that if a separation or stripping off occurredit would doubtless be at these points. That the u
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