page_title: Urethral sponge
hierarchical_section_title: Urethral sponge
caption_attribution_description: English: Description: Female pelvic cross section with numbered arrows. Identifier: refere07buck (find matches) Title: A Reference handbook of the medical sciences&#160;: embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922 Subjects: Medicine Publisher: New York&#160;: William Wood Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: refore the walls of the vagina in-crease markedly in thickness downward. Thisis especially the case on the side of the rectum.the backward curving of the latter forming a wedge-shaped muscular column, which forms the common wallof the lower part of both vagina and rectum. As has already been intimated, the first part of thevagina, in virgins, passes almost directly backward, thehymen forming its lower wall (see Fig. 4454). At theouter border of the hymen it makes a sharp turn and * A second hymen occasionally exjsts above the first (Cazennx). t In rare instances, however, as is well known in legal medicine, thisdoes not occur. Such an event happened in a patient of the writers,who became pregnant with the hymen intact. In such cases the hymenis unusually firm. 560 REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Vaccininm.Vagina. passes upward and backward. The anterior wall alsopasses backward and then upward, but the first portionis more oblique, and the turn not quite so sharp as in the Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 4456.—Median Section of the Lower Part of the Buttocks of a FrozenFemale Subject; Multipara. The intestines are removed. 1, Pubicsynchondrosis; 8, peritoneum&#160;; 3, outer muscular layer of the con-tracted urinary bladder; 4, inner layer of the same; 5, subperitonealconnective tissue&#160;; 6, clitoris; 7, vena dorsalis clitoridis&#160;; 8, cross sec-tion of the deep transversus perinei muscle&#160;; 9, circular fibres of theurethra, anterior wall; 10, labium pudendi; 11, orifice of the urethra;12, labia minora&#160;; 13, longitudinal fibre layer of the urethra, posteriorw;ill&#160;; 14, circular fibre layer of the urethra, posterior wall; 15, orificeof the vagina; 16, organic muscular tissue of the perineum&#160;; 17, ex-ternal sphincter ani muscle&#160;: 18, internal sphincter ani muscle; 19,anus&#160;; 80, longitudinal muscular layer of the rectum&#160;; 21, internalsphincter ani; 82, external sphincter ani: 23, vagina; 84, anteriorlabium uterinum; 25, posterior labium uterinum&#160;; 26, recto coccygeusmuscle; 87, sacrum&#160;; 88 Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The urethral sponge is a spongy cushion of tissue, found in the lower genital area of females, that sits against both the pubic bone and vaginal wall, and surrounds the urethra.
context_section_description: The urethral sponge is a spongy cushion of tissue, found in the lower genital area of females, that sits against both the pubic bone and vaginal wall, and surrounds the urethra.
caption: 14. The urethral sponge
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