. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 642 UTERUS AND ITS APPENDAGES. branch which proceeds from the renal plexus body of the uterus is formed in man ; while in in company with the spermatic artery, and is those animals in which no middle portion distributed also to the ovary. or body exists, the cornua remain ununited. Another set, distinct from these nerves, As the development of the uterus proceeds, comes also from the same continuation of the the two cornua become gradually shorter, hypogastric plexus, but forms a plexiform ar- until at length they are lo
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 642 UTERUS AND ITS APPENDAGES. branch which proceeds from the renal plexus body of the uterus is formed in man ; while in in company with the spermatic artery, and is those animals in which no middle portion distributed also to the ovary. or body exists, the cornua remain ununited. Another set, distinct from these nerves, As the development of the uterus proceeds, comes also from the same continuation of the the two cornua become gradually shorter, hypogastric plexus, but forms a plexiform ar- until at length they are lost, or, as it were, rangement around the vessels ; and among these absorbed into the body or fundus of the uterus, are found here and there minute ganglia, which is thus at the same time developed. These nerves are very minute.* The accompanying figure, representing the THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UTERUS, AND THE METAMORPHOSES WHICH IT UNDERGOES AT DIFFERENT PERIODS OF LIFE. a. The origin of the uterus, and its condition during foetal life. — In the human embryo, ac- cording to the observations of Miiller, during the transformation of the Wolffian bodies, the efferent tube of the generative apparatus un- dergoes the following modifications. In the male, all that portion of the efferent tube which passes along the outer border of the corpus Wolffianum is thrown into strongly marked convolutions, and this part contributes to the formation of the epididymis, while be- low this point the convolutions cease ; and here a band or ligament, the gubernaculum testis of Hunter, which had been developed at a still earlier period, passes off" to the inguinal canal. In the female, the following trans- formation occurs. The tube here remains free from convolutions, but a ligament, re- sembling that of the male, which is afterwards converted into the ligamentum uteri teres, passes off from the same point, to be extended to the inguinal ring. The part of the tube which lies below this point
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