Transverse section through the ventral part of the trunk of an embryo Scyllium of stage P, in the region of the pelvic fin, on the same scale as fig.
Transverse section through the pelvic fin of an embryo of Scyllium belonging to stage P[5], magnified 50 diameters.
Pelvic fin of a very young female embryo of Scyllium stellare, magnified 16 diameters.
Pelvic fin of a young male embryo of Scyllium stellare, magnified 16 diameters.
Some years ago there was discovered the pelvicand leg bones of what was evidently an enormous extinct bird.
In this disorder there is no recognizable physical disease of the pelvic organs, and the patient will generally be found to have suffered neuralgia in other parts of the body on previous occasions.
I have seen one case in which severe pain of this kind was clearly proved to have been excited by the presence of a carious tooth which was itself little, if at all, painful, but the removal of which at once cured the pelvic pain.
Speaking generally of atropine, it must undoubtedly be counted far inferior to morphia as a speedy and reliable reliever of neuralgic pain, but for all pelvic neuralgias it appears to me on the whole to surpass morphia.
Perhaps less is known of the pelvic system and its functions than any division of the body, and for that reason I have felt that we should know all that is possible to be learned.
I believe more ignorance prevails to-day of internal causes of diseases than would if we reasoned that the pelvic nerves and vessels had much to do in forming the abdominal viscera.
But the fish-lizards had two pairs of these appendages, and the hinder or pelvic pair no doubt were of great service in helping the creatures to come up to the surface when necessary.
In his late book, "The Abdominal andPelvic Brain," Dr.
In doing this the pressure exerted must be deep enough to recognize distinctly, along the whole route traversed by the examining fingers, the resistant surfaces of the posterior abdominal wall and of the pelvic brim.
The terminal part of the digestive tube from the pelvic colon to the anus.
It is of great advantage to treat pelvic abscesses as abscesses are treated elsewhere in the body.
In pelvic inflammations castor oil in two- or three-tablespoonful doses, or five to ten grains of calomel rubbed up with twenty grains of bicarbonate of sodium, as recommended by Barker, may be given when thus indicated.
Indeed, in many cases, the distinctive symptoms of the latter may be present for from four to eight days, and may then subside without leaving a trace of its existence at the pelvic brim.
In pelvic peritonitis, in the course of forty-eight hours plastic exudation is thrown out and the pain to a great extent subsides.
It is only safe to assume the peritoneal origin of extravasations of a rounded form, of a fluctuating consistence, and when they are situated high up and are disconnected from exudation at the pelvic brim.
The pain and the functional disturbances in the pelvic organs depend upon the size and situation of these inflammatory deposits.
If the latter is abundant, it may become encysted by the formation of adhesions between the pelvic organs.
In the Teleostomes the place of the pelvic girdle is taken functionally by an element apparently formed by the fusion of the basal portions of several radials.
We accordingly distinguish the two pairs of fins as pectoral or anterior and pelvic ( = "ventral") or posterior.
In the gobies and lumpsuckers (Cyclopteridae) the pelvic fins are fused to form an adhesive sucker; in the Gobiesocidae they take part in the formation of a somewhat similar sucker.
In most Teleostomes the primitive pelvic girdle does not develop; in the Dipneusti it is represented by a median unpaired cartilage.
In the less highly specialized groups of fishes the pectoral fins are close behind the head, the pelvic fins in the region of the cloacal opening.
The pelvicfin skeleton, while built obviously on the same plan as the pectoral, is liable to much modification and frequently degeneration.
In the more specialized forms the pelvic fins frequently show a more or less extensive shifting towards the head, so that their position is described as thoracic (fig.
The pectoral andpelvic fins are called paired fins because they are in pairs.
Just behind the pelvic fins is a single fin, situated on the middle line of the body.
Formerly the iliac and pelvic colons were spoken of as the sigmoid flexure, but Treves and T.
At the end of the pelvic colon the mesocolon ceases, and the rectum is then only covered by peritoneum at its sides and in front; lower down the lateral covering is gradually reflected off and then only the front is covered.
The pelvic colon lies in the true pelvis and forms a loop, the two limbs of which are superior and inferior while the convexity reaches across to the right side of the pelvis.
The sedentary habit impedes circulation in the pelvic basin, and induces stagnation of the blood; moreover, what other outlet is provided for the nervous energies?
Septic pelvic peritonitis may ensue, and the woman may lose her life.
The young of the mole are not born through the pelvic arch at all; but in front of it!
In form it is pear-shaped, weighs from 12 drams to 3 ounces and is situated in the pelvic cavity, between the bladder and the rectum, with its base upwards and its apex, smaller end downward.
This is a very common practice among civilized women, and it has a most destructive effect upon the pelvic organs, as well as upon the general system.
These ligaments are attached to the sides of the pelvic cavity, and aid greatly in holding the uterus firmly in place.
It is rather simply suspended, or hung in the pelvic cavity, by these broad flat bands of tissue.
The digestion certainly cannot be perfect while there is this inflammation in the pelvic organs; while the latter can hardly maintain a healthy condition if the stomach fails to do its work.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound be taken, it will not only allay all inflammation in the stomach and impart great strength, but it will at the same time remove the soreness and pain in the pelvic organs.
On each side of the uterus and in each side of the pelvic cavity is an ovary.
Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be taken at once, because of its most happy effect in relieving congestion and inflammation of all the pelvic organs.
The middle sacral artery, as it runs down the front of the sacrum, gives branches to the back of the pelvic wall.
The inferior mesenteric artery gives off a left colic branch to the descending colon, a sigmoid branch to the iliac and pelvic colon, and ends in the superior haemorrhoidal artery, which supplies the rectum.
As pectoral and pelvic fins are now developed, subclavian and iliac arteries are found rising from the dorsal aorta, though the aorta itself is continued directly backward as the caudal artery into the tail.
The internal iliac enters the pelvis and divides into branches for the supply of the pelvic walls and viscera, including the organs of generation, and for the great muscles of the buttock.
The kind of assistance required in these cases depends chiefly on the measure of the pelvic diameters, though it may be modified somewhat by other considerations.
Severe blows or falls in early life may also create a pelvic deformity, and this, as a possible consequence of such accidents, should always be borne in mind.
The position means the particular direction in which the presenting part of the Fœtus is placed in relation to the Pelvic straits.
The head is now fairly within the Pelvic cavity, but still lies across from right to left.
After being six hours in labor, the os uteri was fully expanded, and the head well down in the pelvic cavity.
This is called pelvic version; but sometimes the head is brought to the mouth of the womb, particularly in shoulder presentations, and this is called cephalic version.
Cephalic version can be so seldom performed however, and is so difficult, and sometimes dangerous, that it is seldom or never attempted; more particularly as pelvic version can always be substituted, and is more easy and safe.
The os uteri was well dilated, but it was evident that the pelviccanal was contracted throughout, and the head was passing with unusual difficulty through the brim.
The Female Pelvic Organs: Their Surgery, Surgical Pathology, and Surgical Anatomy.
In the pelvic region, from about the level of the posterior end of the ischiadic plexus, the strand of each side becomes single again, passing ventrally over the transverse processes.
The pelvic vertebrae include of course the sacrum.
Johnson, "On the Development of the Pelvic Girdle and Skeleton of the Hind-limb in the Chick," Q.
Fractures implicating the pelvic girdle as a whole# usually result from severe crushing forms of violence, such as the fall of a mass of coal or a pile of timber, or the passage of a heavy wheel over the pelvis.
In unilateral cases the affected half of the pelvis is contracted, so that the pelvic basin is narrowed and oblique.
It may merely be fissured, or the head of the femur may be forcibly driven through its floor into the pelvic cavity, either by fracturing the bone or, in young subjects, by bursting asunder the cartilaginous junction of the constituent bones.
On rectal or vaginal examination there is localised tenderness over the pelvic aspect of the acetabulum, and in some cases a convex projection, or even crepitating fragments can be detected.
A longitudinal fracture of the sacrum may implicate the posterior part of the pelvic ring, as has already been mentioned.
Swelling on the pelvic aspect of the acetabulum can sometimes be discovered on rectal examination.
Thus a fracture of the iliac bone may run into the greater sciatic notch; or a vertical fracture of the sacrum or separation of the sacro-iliac joint may break the continuity of the pelvic brim.
The pelvic viscera may be lacerated by the tearing asunder of the bones, or perforated by sharp fragments, or they may be ruptured by the same violence as that causing the fracture.
Should these or any other of the pelvic viscera be damaged, such injuries must first receive attention.
Many-tailed Bandage and Binder for Fracture ofPelvic Girdle.
Fissures occur on the flat bones of the skull, the pelvic bones, and the scapula; or in association with other fractures in long bones, when they often run into joint surfaces.
The lateral and posterior aspects of the pelvicring may be implicated either in association with pubic fractures or independently.
The pubic portion of the pelvic ring is the most common seat of fracture.
In sewing up, it is important to reunite the cut edges of the levator ani, or pelvic weakness will result.
A pulmonary embolism is not necessarily fatal, for a woman after a pelvic operation may complain of sudden pain in the chest, urgent dyspnœa, exhibit great mental distress, and in a short time spit up sputum mixed with blood.
In all pelvicoperations it is a great advantage to employ nurses who have had a special training in ‘abdominal nursing’.
The removal of ovaries as a surgical operation was introduced independently by Hégar in Germany and Battey in Georgia, for the relief of pelvic pain and dysmenorrhœa, in 1872.
He sets to work and overcomes many of the difficulties, but finds at last such extensive pelvic adhesions that it is imprudent to proceed further.
I have noticed the same tendency to stitch-abscess in cases of diffuse pelvic inflammation due to infection by the gonococcus.
Many serious consequences have arisen from dabs and instruments accidentally left in the peritoneal cavity after pelvic operations.
Hunterian Lecture on Thrombosis and Embolism after Operations on the Female Pelvic Organs.
On the whole the accident is more prone to complicate Cæsarean section than any other operation on the pelvic organs, and cases have been reported in which there has been a repetition of the accident.
Occasionally the tumour lies in the pelvis below the uterus: in this case the surgeon carefully insinuates his hand between the pelvic wall and the uterus, and then gently withdraws the tumour from its incarcerated position.
With the wedge-shape occasioned in the lowest human types there occurs a further remarkable phenomenon in the increased size of the foetal head accompanying the contraction of the pelvic outlet.
The easy parturition in the lower human races is due to the discrepancy between cranial and pelvic sizes not having been as yet reached by those races.
The cranio-pelvic difficulty may perhaps settle the Malthusian question as far as the higher races of men are concerned by their extinction.
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