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Title: Quain's elements of anatomy
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Quain, Jones, 1796-1865 Thomson, Allen, 1809-1884 Sharpey-Schäfer, E. A. (Edward Albert), Sir, 1850-1935, ed Thane, George Dancer, 1850-1930
Subjects: Human anatomy Anatomy
Publisher: New York : William Wood and co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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al distension : inthe natural condition, according to Luschka and Henle, the female bladder isdecidedly smaller than that of the male. The size and shape of the bladder, its position in the abdomino-pelviccavity, and its relations to surrounding parts, vary greatly, accordingto its state of distension or collapse. When empty, the bladder liesdeeply in the pelvis, and in a vertical antero-posterior section pre-sents a triangular appearance, being flattened above and below, having 632 THE UEINARY BLADDER. its base turned backwards and somewhat downwards, whilst its apex i8directed forwards over the symphysis pubis. When moderately full, itis stiU contained within the pelvic cavity, and has a rounded form (fig,577, a), but when completely distended, it rises above the brim of thepelvis, and becomes egg-shaped ; its larger end, which is called thebase, or fundus, being directed backwards towards the rectum in themale and the vagina in the female ; and its smaller end, or summit. Fig. 577.
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Fig. 577.—Lateral view op the visceea op the male pelais (R. Quain). \ The left hip-bone has been disarticulated from the sacrum, the spinous process of theischium cut through, and the pubis divided to the left of the symphysis ; a, bladder;h, V, rectum ; c, membranous part of the urethra ; d, section of the left corpus cayer-nosum ; e, bulb of the spongy body of the urethra ; /, Cowpers gland ; g, section of thebody of tlie pubis ; A, sphincter ani muscle ; i, part of tlie left vas deferens ; m, arti-cular surface of the sacrum ; n, divided spine of the ischium ; o, coccyx ; j), prostategland ; r, r, peritoneum ; r, recto-vesical pouch; ii, left ureter; v, left vesicula semi-nalis. resting against the lower part of the anterior wall of the abdomen.Immediately in front of the base is the thickened portion often mis-named the cervix, or neclt, from which the urethra abruptly leads off. The long axis of the distended bladder is directed nearly horizontallyfrom the base to the summit,

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