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Credit: Practical manual of obstetrics. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![external layer composed of parallel fibres, transverse or slightly oblique toward the tubes, the ovary, and the round ligament; it interlaces at the Fig. 25.—Superficial Layer of the Posterior Surface of the Uterus. O, Ovary ; T, tube; 1, left branch of the median fasciculus; 2, right branch; 3, 4, transverse fibres; 5, oblique fibres; 6, interlacing of the fibres of the posterior and anterior sun aces. centre to form a raphe ; this median fasciculus always de- scends lower behind than in front. A second, internal, thicker layer, consisting of muscular fibres, which starts from the median line and terminates conically toward the orifice of the tubes; on the internal walls there ex- ists a double triangular fas- ciculus, slightly prominent, the constant presence of which has been demonstra- ted by Helie (of Nantes). Lastly, the third, or median layer, successively admitted and rejected, has been de- scribed with precision by Helie ; it is composed of in- terlacing fibres forming en- circling loops or rings around Fig. 26.—Internal Surface, Superficial Layer of the Anterior ,, „„nr,in mi- ™„/KOY. Wall. 1, Uterine wall: 2. infundibulum of the tubes'; 3. triangu- tne veSSeiS. ±1118 median lar fasciculus; 4. arcuate fibres of the vault; 5, interlacing of • • .„„. •„!],. iric-ilVIo of these fibres which extend beneath the triangular fasciculus; fi. 1<VS ei IS especially Vlbiuie au orifice of sinuses: 7. portion of the posterior triangular fasciculus ,, »**;«* nf inaprHnn nf the lifted up ;S, cervical fibres ;<♦, transverse fibres; 10, oblique fibres, tlie pOlllt 01 inseilion OI Tlie](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2100013x_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
