A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . he orifices of the glan Is,and </, the glands themselves. They were believed by Weber, andare here represented, as being, at the commencement of pregnancy,greatly convoluted, and sometimes bifurcated at the extremities. Themore recent an 1 exact observations of M. Robin show, however, thatwhen in situ, they are rather undulated than convoluted, that theyare never spiral, although, as in Fig. 32, they may appear so whenseparated, and never bifurcating. During pregnancy and menstruation,they become greatly e
A System of midwifery : including the diseases of pregnancy and the puerperal state . he orifices of the glan Is,and </, the glands themselves. They were believed by Weber, andare here represented, as being, at the commencement of pregnancy,greatly convoluted, and sometimes bifurcated at the extremities. Themore recent an 1 exact observations of M. Robin show, however, thatwhen in situ, they are rather undulated than convoluted, that theyare never spiral, although, as in Fig. 32, they may appear so whenseparated, and never bifurcating. During pregnancy and menstruation,they become greatly enlarged, and sometimes cross each other, an ap-pearance which in all probability has led to the idea of a division ofthe tube1. They are simple utricular glands, parallel to each other. IV.] MITCOUS MEMBRANE OF UTERUS 69 ending in a cul-de-sac, and permeating the entire membrane. Theyare lined by nucleated ovoid epithelial cells, their ^alls being finelygranular, and very firmly adherent to the tissue which intervenesbetween them. Their length measures exactly the thickness of the. Utricular glands of uterus. (E. H. Weber.) mucous membrane, and is least, therefore, where the membrane be-comes thinner, on its approach to the os internum and the orifice of theFallopian tubes. If we except that of the stomach, says M. Robin,1 Fig. 32. Fro. 33.
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