Diseases of women / by Alfred Lewis Galabin.

  • Galabin, Alfred Lewis, 1843-1913.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Diseases of women / by Alfred Lewis Galabin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AXATn:\[y of tuv. FT;:\rAr.i' liKXTTM. or,f;\xs. l.-j small intcstiucs, hut not the pouch of Douglas, or at any rate, not its lower portion. Its walls are in apposition, or it contains only a few drops of peritoneal serum. LioAjrEXTs OF -mi'; Utetiu.s.—The fornuition of tlic hroad ligainents has already heen descrihed. Each In-oad ligament consists of a rloublo fold of peritoneum, with a thin layer of connective tissue intervening. It extends outward and somewhat backward from tlie side of the uterus to the pelvic wall iu front of the sacro- iliac synchondrosis, there coming in contact with the obturator interuus muscle. The layers of peritoneum separate somewhat as they approach the pelvic wall. For tlie greater part of its extent the bi'oad ligament Fig. 7. —l{i};lit Bical JJifimifut sec'ii from licliiml. V, utcnis; T, Fiilloijiau tube; F, fimbria; ir M, livilntid of Mort/iigni ; <>, ovary, united to uterus liy o\'arian lif/imu-nt'; ]^ar, parovariuui. has a free and loose upper border, formed by the Fallo- pian tube. (Fig. 7.) The ovarian fimbria connects th(> (!xtreniity of tlie Fallopian tvd)e with the ovary. This, together tlie u])per margin of the outer part of th(> liroad ligament, not occupied by the Fallopian tube, is described as the infuiidihalo-pclrie lifianioit of the ovar}-. As seen from above (Fig. 8, p. 1(5) the broad ligameiit a])])ears to div(>rge into three divisions. The central is the Fallo])ian tube forming tlie I'rer Ixirder. Tlie anterior is the round lifjawcut of the uterus. Tliis arises near the origin of the Fallopian tul)e, and takes a curved course outward, forward, and u])\var(l, to lie inserted neai' (be inner ( ((lumii of tlie external ahdoiiii-