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Title: A textbook of obstetrics
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Hirst, Barton Cooke, 1861-1935
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Fig. 17.— The pelvic ligaments from above: a, Tip of sacrum: bt subpubicligament : c, tuber ischii; </, sacrosciatic notch ; e, aperture for femoral vessels andnerves; k, Pouparts Ligament 1 Hart).
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Fig. 18.—The pelvic ligament- from below. Lettering same as above, exceptx, sacrosciatic foramen. 3 J PREGNANCY. the mesorectum to the posterior pelvic wall. Branching pro-cesses, in addition, follow the round ligament to the groin andmons veneris, the vessels and nerves escaping through the sacro-sciatic notch to the buttocks, the three canals o( the pelvis—the urethra, vagina, and rectum—to the subcutaneous connec-tive tissue of the external genitalia and perineum. The Blood=vessels.—The ovarian arteries, leaving the aorta,enter the pelvis on their respective sides and, passing between thelaminae of the broad ligament a short distance under its upperedge, send brandies to the ovaries and tubes and a branch to thefundus, while the main trunk turns at a right angle downwardalongside the uterus, to anastomose with the uterine artery, giv-ing off on its way numerous brandies to the uterine wall. Theuterine artery on both sides passes downward from the anteriortrunk of the intern

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