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Title: Anatomy, descriptive and surgical (electronic resource)
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Gray, Henry, 1825-1861 Carter, H. V., ill Westmacott, John Guise, Dr, ill
Subjects: Anatomy
Publisher: London : J.W. Parker
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
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es, and the BLADDER. visceral layer of the pelvic fascia, which is reflected from the wall of the pelvison to the viscera. Contents. The viscera contained in this cavity are the urinary bladder, thelower end of the rectum, and some of the generative organs peculiar to eachsex; they are partially covered by the peritoneum, and supplied with blood andlymphatic vessels and nerves. The Bladder. The bladder is the reservoir for the urine. It is a musculo-membranous sac,situated in the pelvis, behind the pubes, and in front of the rectum in the male,the uterus and vagina intervening between it and that intestine in the female.The shape, position, and relations of the bladder are greatly influenced by age,sex, and the degree of distension of the organ. During infancy, it is conical inshape, and projects above the upper border of the pubes into the hypogastricregion. In the adult, when quite empty and contracted, it is a small triangular 369.—Vertical Section of Bladder, Penis, and Urethra.
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sac, placed deeply in the pelvis, flattened from before backwards, its apex reachingas high as the upper border of the symphysis pubis. When slightly distended, ithas a rounded form, and partially fills the pelvic cavity; and when greatly distended,is ovoid in shape, rising into the abdominal cavity, often extending upwards nearlyas high as the umbilicus. It is larger in its vertical diameter than from side toside, and its long axis is directed from above obliquely downwards and backwardsin a line directed from some point between the pubes and umbilicus (according toits distension) to the end of the coccyx. The bladder, when distended, is slightlycurved forwards towards the anterior wall of the abdomen, so as to be more 698 URINARY ORGANS. convex behind than in front. In the female, it is larger in the transverse thanin the vertical diameter, and its capacity is said to be greater than in the male.When moderately distended, it measures about five inches in length, and threeinches acro

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