Gynæcology for nurses and gynæecological nursing ... / by comyns Berkeley.

  • Comyns Berkeley
Date:
1925
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Credit: Gynæcology for nurses and gynæecological nursing ... / by comyns Berkeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GYNAECOLOGY FOR NURSES AND GYNAECOLOGICAL NURSING. PART I. ANATOMY. CHAPTER I. STRUCTURE OF THE PELVIS, FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS, BREASTS, URINARY ORGANS, AND RECTUM. Structure of the Pelvis. The female pelvis consists of four bones: the two innominate bones, the sacrum and the coccyx (b ig. 1). The Innominate Bone.—The innominate bone is com¬ posed of three separate parts, the ilium, the ischium and the pubes, which meet at the hip joint in a hollow called the acetabulum, and which are firmly united to one another between the ages of 20 and 25 years. The Ilium is that expanded portion of the innominate bone which forms the hip. The Ischium is the lowest portion of the pelvis, and that part of it upon which the body rests when in a sitting posture is called the tuberosity. The Pubes, with its fellow on the opposite side, forms the front of the pelvis, and their point of junction is known as the symphysis pubis. The Sacrum.—The sacrum consists of the upper five of the lowest nine vertebrae of the spinal column, and these are fused into one solid piece ot bone, The fiont
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