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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rder. As they pass out-ward from the uterus they follow a somewhat sinuous course, and gradu-ally increase in width and thickness. The free extremity possesses anopening communicating with the abdominal cavity, the ostium abdomi-nale, which is large enough to admit a small goose-quill (2), whereasthe uterine opening does not exceed ^ of an inch in diameter. Henledesignated the inner, narrower half, which runs a comparatively straightcourse, the isthmus, and the outer, sinuous, dilated portion the ampullaof the tube. A number of ragged, fringe-like processes surround theostium abdominale, whence the name fimbriated extremity of the tube.These fringes received likewise from the mediaeval anatomists the name * Op. nt., p. 47. f Lott, Zur Anatomic uiul Physiologie der Cervix Uteri, Erlangen, 1872, p. 17. % Lott, /. c, p. 20. 20 PHYSIOLOGICAL ANATOMY. morsus diaboli, from a supposed resemblance to the root of the scabiosasuccissa, the peculiar appearance of which was ascribed by the Buper-
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L.i.o Fig. 13.—Posterior lateral view of the uterus (U.t.\ with portion of lig. latum (L.l.\ oviduct,and ovary. Orf, isthmus ; Od\ ampulla : J. infundibulum : .<(.. ostium abdominale ; F.o.%fimbriaovarica; 0. ovarium; L.o.. lis. ovarii: L.t.o.,Ug. infundibulo-ovaricum; L.i.p., hg.infundibulo-pelvicum ; r, parovarium. (Henle.) Stitious to a bite the devil gave it in a fit of anger at its beneficentaction in the maladies that affect the human race.* One of the lim-

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