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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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ulva, is the narrowest part, and iswidest from before backwards ; the middle part is widest from side toside, being flattened from before backwards, so that its anterior andposterior walls are ordinarily in contact with each other : at its upperend it is rounded, and expands to receive the vaginal portion of the neckof the uterus. The vagina reaches higher up on the cervix uteri behindthan in front, so that the uterus appears to be inserted into its anteriorwall. On the inner surface of the vagina, anteriorly and posteriorly, aslightly elevated ridge extends from the lower end upwards in themiddle line, forming the columns of the vagina, or columnm rvgariim.Numerous dentated transverse ridges, called rugce, are also observed,particularly in persons who have not borne children, running at rightangles from the columns. These columns and rugge are most evidentnear the entrance of the vagina and on the anterior surface, andgradually become less marked, and disappear towards its upper end.
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Fig. 606.—Sectional view op the viscera op the female pelvis (Allen Thomson,after Houston and from nature). %The pelvic viscera having been distended and hardened with alcohol previously tomaking the section, are somewhat larger than natural and the vagina appears open, whereasits anterior and posterior walls should he in contact with one another, p, promontory ofthe sacrum ; s, symphysis of the pubis; v, the upper pai-t of the urinary bladder ;v, the neck ; v, n, the urethra ; u, the uterus; v a, the vagina ; r, third part of therectum ; r, the fold between the middle and upper parts of the rectum ; a, the anus ; I,the right labium ; n, the right nympha ; li, the hymen ; cl, the divided clitoris withthe prepuce. THE UTERUS. 705 Structure and connections.—The walls of the vagina are thickestin front, in the vicinity of the urethra, which indeed may be said to beimbedded in the anterior wall of the vaginal passage ; in other situa-tions they are thinner. The vagina is firmly connec

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