A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . he Fallopian tubes forming the uterine cornua. The uterusand vagina are at first continuous and without any sign of demarcation,but towards the sixth month the neck of the uterus begins to becomeapparent. The external organs of tlie female in their indifferent state demandnotice. The intestine terminates in the cloaca, a cavity into which notonly this tube but also the bladder enters, through the uro-genital arrangement ceases s
A text-book of veterinary obstetrics : including the diseases and accidents incidental to pregnancy, parturition and early age in the domesticated animals . he Fallopian tubes forming the uterine cornua. The uterusand vagina are at first continuous and without any sign of demarcation,but towards the sixth month the neck of the uterus begins to becomeapparent. The external organs of tlie female in their indifferent state demandnotice. The intestine terminates in the cloaca, a cavity into which notonly this tube but also the bladder enters, through the uro-genital arrangement ceases somewhat suddenly, by the development of atransverse septum that divides the cavity into two portions—the analopening, and the uro-genital orifice. -Vt the lower end of the latterappears the genital tubercle, the rudiment of the penis or clitoris, andwhich is surrounded by cutaneous ridges—the genital folds. Thistubercle increases in size, and is traversed by a groove or fissure 8 114 OBSTETRICAL PHYSIOLOGY. passing from behind forward. Up to this time the sexes cannot bedistinguished. The male sex is marked by the rapid development of the genital. Fig. 61. Female Organs of a Fcetal Deek. a, Uterus; h, b, Coinua ; c, c, Oviducts ; d, d, Ovaries ; e, e, Wolffian Bodies. tubercle, which becomes the penis, whose extremity is enlarged to con-stitute the glans. The furrow or groove is closed behind, and formsthe urethra ; while the genital folds, meeting each other below thepenis, join to complete the scrotum. Owing to these changes, the
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