The diseases of women : a handbook for students and practitioners / by J. Bland-Sutton and Arthur E. Giles.

  • Giles, Arthur Edward, 1864-1935.
Date:
1902
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Credit: The diseases of women : a handbook for students and practitioners / by J. Bland-Sutton and Arthur E. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ;as the vas deferens, which ultimatel}' opens in the floor of :the urethra, the adjacent parts of which become excessively ddeveloped and form a musculo-glandular organ, the prostate. (Coincident with the growth of the mesonephi-ic tubules and vduct the glandular part of the mesonephros atrophies, and its westiges are incorporated with the testis and lie between the Ibody of the testis and its globus major, closely associated with tthe vasa efferentia. Usually the MiiUerian ducts atrophy except sat their extremities, the lower of which fuse to form a sinus in rrelation with the prostatic urethra—the sinus pocularis ; the {anterior extremity being probably represented by a pedunculated (body, the cyst of Morgagni. In the female (fig. 13) the Mullerian ducts develop and fuse lin their middle and posterior thirds to form a median muscular (organ, the uterus and vagina; the anterior thirds remain 'separate as the Fallopian tubes. The genital masses become (Ovaries ; the remains of the mesonephros and the associated i tubules and duct persist as vestiges. The glandular elements (of the mesonephros are known in the adult ovary as the ] paroiiphoron, its tubules form the vertical tubes of the paro- ■ varium, and the duct occasionally persists throughout its whole I length as Gartner’s duct. It has akeady been pointed out that the orifice of the uro-genital sinus is surmounted by a small eminence, and is laterally limited by cutaneous folds. In early embryonic life this orifice is common to the terminations of the urethra, gen- ital passages, and alimentary canal. Subsequently the orifice of the gut is separated from the uro-genital passage, the pos- terior orifice becomes the anus and the anterior becomes the uro-genital opening, and the structures in its walls specialise mto labia majora, labia minora, clitoris, and hymen, with the various recesses which in the adult receive special names. In the male, further fusion and development take place ; the parts which in the female persist as labia fuse together and
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