The article Uterus and its appendages from the Cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology : comprising the normal and abnormal anatomy, physiology and development of the uterus, ovary, parovarium, Fallopian tube, vagina, vulva and placenta / by Arthur Farre.

  • Farre, Arthur, 1811-1887.
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[1858]
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    explained by tlie much smaller number of blooil-vessels that it contains, as compared with the general parenchyma of the ovary. The tunica albuginea, therefore, is not merely a more condensed form of the ovarian stroma, but appears to result from a development of tissues which exist in the stroma in an ele- mentary or embryonic form, as well as from a more close conjunction and blending of those tissues. 2. ThcPurowhi/mnorSlruma,{fig- 37].c,and fig. 372. s) constitutes tlie proper tissue of the ovary. It lies immediately beneath the tunica albuginea, and fdls up the whole of the inter- mediate space between the ovisacs, to which it acts as a germ bed, protecting the ova from injury, and serving for tlie conveyance of blood- vessels to the ovisacs. This tissue is some- times of a pale-pink, but more often of a bright-red colour, from the large niunber of blood-vessels which it contains, whose ar- rangement proceeding from within, and radi- ating outwardly in all directions, gives to this tissue, when viewed by the naked e3'e or by Fig. 371, Ovary enlarged four diameters. {After Coste.) Dissected to shew,