As lacerations predispose to abortion the operation of trachelorraphy or repair of the cervix is indicated.
It occurs in virgins as well as in mothers, but it often accompanies lacerations of the cervix.
In actual practice it displays itself in ecstatic dancing or singing, or in exclaiming the name of the god or goddess, or in self-lacerations in his or her honour.
Practical Remarks on Lacerations of the Uterus and Vagina, by Thomas M'Keever, M.
The edges of the lacerations were thinly covered with flakes of coagulated blood; and about an ounce of this fluid was found in the fold of the peritoneum, which dips down between the uterus and the rectum.
The lips of the os uteri are smooth, except when slight lacerations have taken place during labour.
Bruises and lacerations of the passages and flooding from the uncontracted womb may come from the too speedy extraction of the calf.
Simple, superficial lacerations of the vaginal walls are not usually serious, and heal readily unless septic inflammation sets in, in which case the cow is liable to perish.
From previous lacerations or other injuries the neck of the womb may have become the seat of fibrous hardening and constriction, so as to prevent its dilatation, when all other parts are fully prepared for calving.
Another important reason for finding out the character of the laceration is because these lacerations of the mouth of the womb frequently cause sterility.
The reason for this is to find out by examination the character and extent of the lacerations of the mouth of the womb.
As a result of this brutal haste, frightful lacerations are incurred, which require immediate attention, but small lacerations heal without any further treatment than to keep clean.
This is due to the fact that in married women and those who have born children the cervix of the womb is exposed to mechanical injury from coition, friction against the vaginal walls in walking and from lacerations during delivery.
Falling of the vagina is principally due to a widening of the vaginal canal, a relaxation of its walls, and injuries or lacerations of the pelvic floor.
Lacerations of the perineum generally occur during confinement, in which the vagina tears through the vaginal orifice backwards towards, or into, the rectum.
On legs were fissures and lacerations near each knee.
The direct external injuries caused by lightning are burns, subcutaneous hemorrhages, discolorations and markings of the skin either dendritic or metallic, lacerations or wounds.
For testimony from the mouths of slaveholders to the terrible lacerations and other nameless outrages inflicted on the slaves, the reader is referred to the number of the Anti-Slavery Record for Jan.
Missouri, says, "It is true that barbarous cruelties are inflicted upon them, such as terrible lacerations with the whip, and excruciating tortures are sometimes experienced from the thumb screw.
Cattle-horn Lacerationsof the Abdomen and Uterus of Pregnant Women.
Lacerations of the vagina make the prognosis unfavourable, and especially injury of the bladder.
These lacerations are longitudinal in direction and in the neighbourhood of the internal os uteri.
Unless strict asepsis be maintained, these lacerations of course form a channel for infection of the pelvic cellular tissue.
Contusions and lacerations of the forearm are of frequent occurrence in horses and are troublesome cases to handle; particularly is this noticeable where extensive laceration of the parts occurs.
In females where the body of the ischium is fractured, lacerations of the vagina may be present, and this constitutes a serious complication which usually terminates fatally.
The lacerations occurred oftenest in horizontal lines, though there were perpendicular lines as well.
The quick healing of the lacerations attested the healthiness of his blood.
In bed, he could not sleep because of his pain, and hour by hour she worked over him, renewing the hot compresses over his bruises, soothing the lacerations with witch hazel and cold cream and the tenderest of finger tips.
When death occurs from puerperal pyæmia there are generally found some indications of the recent parturition, although the principal lacerations or injuries may be confined to the womb.
It is by no means easy to decide as to the precise nature of local inflammations following lacerations of the cervix and the bruising or crushing of the soft parts in long or instrumental labors.
The author has even marked the lacerations of his panting and hunted volume from "a spaniel questing who hath sprung my book out of one press into two other.
The great omentum was mangled and comminuted, and bore two lacerations of two inches each.
Lacerations of the urethra from urethral coitus in instances of vaginal atresia or imperforate hymen may also excite serious hemorrhage.
Green of Boston; Mann of Buffalo; Sinclair and Munro of Boston, all mention lacerations occurring during coitus.
By the sixteenth day the abdominal wound had perfectly closed, the lacerations granulated healthily, and the man did well.
Cases like rupture of an aneurysm during labor, extensive hemorrhage, the entrance of air into the uterine veins and sinuses, and common lacerations will be omitted, together with complicated births like those of double monsters, etc.
The traumatism of criminal abortion, punctures and lacerations from bougies and curettes, and the exhibition of drugs like ergot and cantharides, are sources and results of abortion.
Thus the degree of laceration depends on the direction of the wound track, and as all lacerations are accompanied by contusion, the relative velocity retained by the travelling bullet assumes the same importance.
The fatal wounds consisted in extensive lacerations resulting in the destruction of the head or limbs, the laying open of the abdominal or thoracic cavities, or the production of visceral injuries beyond the possibility of repair.
This method has the additional advantage of protecting the organ against bruises and lacerationsin the effort made to return it.
Lacerations and contusions, when extensive, are always to be regarded as dangerous.
Injuries of a more complicated character, as lacerations of the skin or tearing of soft structures, will also be benefited by simple dressings with antiseptic mixtures, as those of the carbolic-acid order.
Still, shoulder lameness or sprain may exist, originating in lacerations of the muscles, the tendons or the ligaments of the joint, or perhaps in diseases of the bones themselves.
The fibrous structure situated behind the cannon bones, both in the fore and hind legs, is often the seat of lacerations or sprains resulting from violent efforts or sudden jerks.
And not only may the third sign be absent, but the mobility of the first be greatly increased when the character of the injury has been such as to produce extensive lacerations of the articular ligaments.
Sometimes such lacerations extend downward into the bladder, and in others upward into the terminal gut (rectum).
There were irregular superficial lacerations over the basular or inferior aspects of the left temporal and frontal lobes.
The margins of this laceration at all points were jagged and irregular, with additional lacerations extending in varying directions and for varying distances from the main laceration.
Boswell and I extended the lacerations of the scalp which were at the margins of this wound, down in the direction of both of the President's ears.
But keener agonies, more delicious passages, are nowhere else known than in the bosoms of innocent school-girls, in the lacerations or fruitions of their first consciously given affections.
She had the sweetest faculty for dressing the wounds of envy and jealousy, soothing the lacerations of rivalry and hate, assuaging the bitterness of neglected and revengeful souls.
Allan, forgetting his own lacerations and his pain, in this supreme crisis.
The "scratch" turned out to be three severe lacerations of the forearm.
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