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Identifier: handbookofphysio1856kirk (find matches)
Title: Hand-book of physiology
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Kirkes, William Senhouse, 1823-1864
Subjects: Physiology Human physiology
Publisher: London : Walton and Maberly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ut fromthe same point as in the male, a ligament, afterwards the roundligamentum of the uterus, extends to the inguinal ring. Thepart of the tube which lies below the point of attachment ofthis ligament becomes the horn of the uterus. In those animalsin which a middle portion or body of the uterus exists, thispart is formed by the coalescence of the two horns. In thehuman uterus, the two horns gradually become shorter, andare lost in the body or fundus of the uterus which is at thesame time developed. (See fig. 107, a, c). The sinus urogenitalis, which has been mentioned, is a cavityor canal, opening externally, in which the excretory ducts ofthe Wolffian bodies, the ureters, and the efferent parts of thegenerative apparatus terminate internally. This canal is also DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEXUAL ORGANS. 707 prolonged into tlie nraclius. Subsequently it becomes dividedby a process of division extending from before backwards, orfrom above downwards, into a pars urinaria and a pars Fig. 107.*
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* Fig. 107. Urinary and generative organs of a human embryomeasuring 3^ inches in length, a. general view of these parts: 1, su-pra-renal capsules; 2, kidneys; 3, ovary; 4, Fallopian tube; 5, uterus;6, intestine; 7, the bladder, b, Bladder and generative organs of thesame embryo viewed from the side: 1, the urinary bladder; 2, urethra;3, uterus (with two cornua); 4, vagina; 5, part as yet common to thevagina and urethra; 6, common orifice of the urinary and generativeorgans; 7, the clitoris, c, Internal generative organs of the same em-bryo: 1, the uterus; 2, the round ligaments; 3, the Fallopian tubes; 4,the ovaries; 5, the remains of the Wolffian bodies, d, external genera-tive organs of the same embryo: 1, the labia majora; 2, the nymphse3, the clitoris. After Miiller. 708 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEXUAL ORGAXS. genitalis. The former, extending towards the urachus, isconverted into the urinary bladder, whilst from the latter areformed the vesiculae seminales in the male, and the middlepo

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