ee coats, enclosing a central cavity. This cavity of the
womb is small by comparison with the size of the organ and it communicates
with the Fallopian tubes by two minute openings at each side of the body,
and with the vagina below, through the mouth or opening of the womb.

The external coat of the womb is called servos, derived from the
peritoneum; the middle or muscular coat, which forms the chief substance
of the womb, consists of bundles of unstripped muscular fibers intermixed,
with loose connective tissue, blood vessels, lymphatics and nerves; the
internal or mucous coat is continuous through the fringed extremity of the
fallopian tubes, with the peritoneum, and through the mouth of the womb
(os uteri) with the mucous membrane of the vagina. This mucous membrane is
lined in the body of the womb by epithelium arrayed in columns (Columnar
Epithelium) which loses its ciliated (eye-lash) movement character during
pregnancy. In the lower half of the Cervix, the epithelium (this kind of
cell lines all canals having communication with the external air) is of
the stratified (arranged in layers) variety. The appendages of the womb
are the fallopian tubes, the ovaries and their ligaments and the round
ligaments. The fallopian tubes convey the ova (eggs) from the ovaries to
the cavity of the womb. They are two in number, one on each side, situated
in the free border of the broad ligaments and extend from each horn, an
excrescence of the womb that looks like a horn, of the womb outward to the
sides of the pelvis; each is about five inches in length, and has a small
canal beginning at the womb in a very small opening called the internal
mouth (ostium internum). This canal gradually widens to its ending, the
abdominal mouth (ostium abdominal) by which it communicates with the
peritoneal cavity, the timbrae. A series of fringe-like processes
surround this mouth or opening and this farther end is known as the
fimbriated extremity. The tube has three coats, serous or external or
peritoneal; the middle or muscular, continuous with that of the womb, and
an internal or mucous coat continuous also with the lining of the womb and
peritoneum (covered with ciliated Columnar Epithelium).

[WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT 493]

The Ovaries.--They are analogues, anatomically, of the testes in the male.
They are two egg-shaped bodies situated one on each side of the womb on
the posterior aspect of the broad ligament, below and behind the fallopian
tub