Identifier: scienidw00lusk (find matches)
Title: The science and art of midwifery
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Lusk, William Thompson, 1838-1897
Subjects: Obstetrics Women Pathology
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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12 PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. ing description is intended to apply to the nulliparous uterus only: Inoutward form the uterus has been compared to an inverted, wide-necked flask. It is flattened antero-posteriorly. Its average length is in the neighborhood of two and a half indies, though its dimensionsvary to a very considerable extent. It is divided by a tolerably well-
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17 g F., vaginal portion of the cer-vix ; <). external 08 : 7, 7, vagina. B, 1, 1. profile of the anterior surface ; 2, vesicouterinecul-de-sac ; 3, ■!. profile of the posterior surface ; 4, body : 5, neck ; 6, isthmus ; T. cavity ofthe body ; 6, cavity of the cervix : 9. os internum ; 10. anterior lip of the os externum ; 11,posterior lip : 12, 12, vagina. C, 1, cavity of the body ; 2, lateral wall ; 3. superior wall ;1. t. nua : 5, os internum ; 6, cavity of the cervix ; 7, arbor vita? of the cervix ; 8, OS ex-ternum ; 9, 9, vagina. defined constriction into two parts of nearly equal length. The upper,larger portion possesses an anterior, flattened, and a posterior, convex-surface. It is limited by three borders. The upper border is moder-ately convex. Hie lateral borders are convex above and concave below.The Fal

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