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Title: A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: New York : William Wood
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Fic;. -1455.—Frontal Sectionof the Female Genitals,through the Orifice of the
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Na Fig. 4454.— Median Section of the External Female Genital Organs of a. Virgin. CI, clitoris; Pc, prepuce; N, nymphs ; H, hymen ; Fn,fossa navicularis; Na. navicula; Ccc, Ccu, cavernous body of theclitoris and urethra ; *. venous plexus between these ; Va, vagina :Cva, Cvp, columna vaginalis anterior et posterior : S, sphincter animuscle; R, rectum. (After Henle.) ing is centrally located. When this opening is large thehymen maybe reduced to a narrow fringed ring. LTnlesscareful examination is made, this ring may escape obser-vation. Such cases have probably been reported as con- Oui ing is said to be sometimes crib-riform. The hymen may be imperfor-ate, ki which case it gives rise totrouble by retaining the menstru-al flow. * The folds and papilla5 of theposterior wall of the vagina passwithout a break upon the uppersurface of the hymen, and fadegradually out as they pass towardthe edge. The lower surface islike that of the external organs.Between its two mucous surfacesit contai

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