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Title: American gynaecological and obstetrical journal.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Obstetrics Gynecology
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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268 /. C. Webster, M.D. come somewhat flattened—i.e., it had changed from the columnarto the cubical type, and that the cells had lost their cilia. In the abortion-sacs which I have examined the naked eye ap-pearances of the surface of the vera were very like those describedby Reichert in his twelve-day specimen. Minot found a similarcondition in his four-weeks pregnancy case. I noticed that the mouths of the glands were best seen in thefurrows—i.e., in the least developed parts of the vera. On thesurface of the raised portions they are seen more rarely after thefirst week or two of pregnancy. We shall later find out that thereason of this is the obliteration of many of the outer parts of theglands by the pressure of the rapidly increasing interglandularelements of the compact layer of the mucosa. In six-week specimens the surface of the vera is somewhataltered. It is not so markedly irregular, but more uniform, prob-ably owing to the gradual obliteration of some of the deep furro

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