A system of gynecology . Infantile Uterus of a girl twenty-one years old: A, Uterus and Appendages diminished: a,body; 6, neck; c, c, tubes; d, d, ovaries; e, e, round ligaments; /,/. broad ligaments. B, right ovary cut open longitudinally, showing large Graafian follicles. C, left ovary withsmaller follicles. (From Kussmaul.) ence of a uterus which not only in size, but in configuration, correspondedto that normally found in the foetus toward the end of pregnancy or inyoung children (Figs. 94, 95). Sometimes it measured only an inchor an inch and a half in length. In other cases it attained t
A system of gynecology . Infantile Uterus of a girl twenty-one years old: A, Uterus and Appendages diminished: a,body; 6, neck; c, c, tubes; d, d, ovaries; e, e, round ligaments; /,/. broad ligaments. B, right ovary cut open longitudinally, showing large Graafian follicles. C, left ovary withsmaller follicles. (From Kussmaul.) ence of a uterus which not only in size, but in configuration, correspondedto that normally found in the foetus toward the end of pregnancy or inyoung children (Figs. 94, 95). Sometimes it measured only an inchor an inch and a half in length. In other cases it attained the length 1 alfta, blood ; ul/rpa, womb. 2 ~i0-. pus; //-pa, v/omb. s vdup, water ; f*VTPa, womb. ARREST OF DEVELOPMENT. 255 Fig. of a virgin uterus, but characteristic were the preponderance of the neckover the body and the thinness of the walls. Internally the folds of thearbor vitae were either confined to the cervix or extended more or less upinto the body of the womb (Fig. 95). Women with such a uterus rarelymenstruate, and cannot conceive, althoughthey may have sexual appetite and be wellfit for copulation. The uterus fcetalis may at the same timebe bicomis as the result of a double arrestof development. The following case of infantile uterus has come under my personal observation. It concerned a woman thirty-six years of age who had been married six years and never been pregnant. Her courses had begun when she was twenty years old, and had been painful and very scant. She had never felt any sexual appetite, although coition did not cause pain, except when performed shortly after menstruation. Before marriage she was chlorotic and had Coronal Section of the same Uterusii i A-r . , . as in Fig. 94, natural
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