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Title: Gynecology
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Graves, William Phillips, 1870-1933
Subjects: Gynecology Genital Diseases, Female Women Gynecology
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : Saunders
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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8). A remnant of this process can be seen in the newborn in the form of in-growths of germinal epithelium into the stroma. This tendency of the epi-thelium surrounding the ovary to inversion often persists, and the cutting offin the stroma of such cell-inclusions undoubtedly is the basis of many ovariannew-growth tumors. The ova, or germ-cells, are distinguished from the other cells by their greater DEFECTS OF DEVELOPMENT 381 size. They are found included in the cell masses above described and scatteredthrough the investing layer of germinal epithelium. After birth there is nofurther generation of new follicles. During the first year many of the primordialfollicles already created disappear. Descent of the Ovaries.—At about the third month of embryonal life thedescent of the ovaries takes place. The gubernaculum of Hunter, which atfirst represents an abdominal fold, later becoming endowed with connectivetissue and muscle-fibers, connects the Wolffian body with the inguinal canal at
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YuWv r*X EjpoophcKon.Qvcxtvj Ov.ttcy-—- D\/.l»oftescimbeb \\i\v(V- —j >i3- &. Fig. 159.—Diagram Showing Descent of Ovaries and Fusion of Mullers Ducts into Uterus and Vagina.The way in which the gubernaculum of Hunter becomes the round and ovarian ligaments is shown. an early period. At the time when the Wolffian body is in the process of retro-gression this ligament fails to keep pace with the growth of the rest of the body,and exerts such traction on the genital gland that it is drawn downward intothe pelvis. The gubernaculum of each side fuses in its upper third with theMullers ducts at their point of union (fundus of the uterus), so that finally it isdivided into two unequal portions, one that extends from the fundus to theinguinal canal, the round ligament, and one that runs from the fundus to theovary, the suspensory ligament of the ovary. 382 GYNECOLOGY Before full sexual development the ovaries remain relatively high, theircomplete descent into the depth of the p

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