Veterinary obstetrics, including the diseases of breeding animals and of the new-born (1909) (14593147048)
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Identifier: veterinaryobstet00will (find matches)
Title: Veterinary obstetrics, including the diseases of breeding animals and of the new-born
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Walter Long, 1856-
Subjects: Veterinary obstetrics
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : The author
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries
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G, all of whichare continuous. As the organ continues to descend toward the inguinal ring,the peritoneum of the abdominal floor, which stretches across thering, evaginates through it as the processus vaginalis at P. inFigs. 56 and 57, into which pouch the epididymis, E, descends,followed later by the gland, T. The testis having formed onthe median side of the Wolffian duct, which later forms theepididymis, the two structures maintain this original relationthroughout and, when the testicle comes to rest in the scrotum, The Reproductive Organs 337 the epididymis lies upon its external face, above the gland. Therelation as to elevation between the testicle and epididymis be-comes reversed. In the abdomen, processus vaginalis and in-guinal canal, the epididymis is beneath the testicle and precedesit in the descent but, when the testicle finally reaches the bottomof the scrotum, it performs a partial revolution forwards on itslong axis, which reverses the relation and brings the epididymis
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