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More realistic size. Add vulva, clitoris, muscles and bones, bulb of vestibule, parametrium-broad ligament, round ligament, suspensory ligament of ovary, blood vessels. Better draw (specially Fallopian tubes and vagina). Hemifrontal cross section. Add vulva label. Add transparency of left ovary and infundibulum of Fallopian tube (they are ...
The word culdoscope (and culdoscopy) is derived from the phrase cul-de-sac, which in French literally means "bottom of a sac", here referring to a blind pouch or cavity in the female body that is closed at one end, that is the rectouterine pouch. As early as the 13th century, a cul-de-sac was a dead-end street (or a dead-end way), a blind alley ...
The vesicouterine pouch is a fold of peritoneum over the uterus and the bladder, forming a pelvic recess. [1] It is continued over the intestinal surface and body of the uterus onto its vesical surface, which it covers as far as the junction of the body and cervix uteri, and then to the bladder.
Gallery of human female and male images Human Body.jpg , a retouched image of both female and male, with anterior and posterior views. Anterior view, without labels
The uterus or womb is the major female reproductive organ. The uterus provides mechanical protection, nutritional support, and waste removal for the developing embryo (weeks 1 to 8) and fetus (from week 9 until the delivery). In addition, contractions in the muscular wall of the uterus are important in pushing out the fetus at the time of birth.
In women, the rectouterine pouch is the deepest point of the peritoneal cavity. It is posterior to the uterus, and anterior to the rectum. [2] Its anterior boundary is formed by the posterior fornix of the vagina. [1] The pouch on the other side of the uterus near to the anterior fornix is the vesicouterine pouch.
Anatomy figure: 43:02-10 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Posterior view of the broad ligament of the uterus, on the left side." Anatomy image:9637 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center; pelvis at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) (uterus, broadligament) figures/chapter_35/35-8.HTM: Basic Human ...