American gynaecological and obstetrical journal. (1897) (14769192975)

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Title: American gynaecological and obstetrical journal.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Obstetrics Gynecology
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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272 /. C. Webster, M.D. nent than in the non-pregnant state. In many parts the spacesshow a tendency to be arranged with their long axes nearly paral-lel to the surface. This suggests the explanation that, as increaseof the size of the mucosa has occurred, the pressure of the intra-uterine contents against the mucosa has forced the enlargingglands to become arranged in this manner. The glandular epithelium is greatly altered. Only rarely is itfound of normal columnar shape. In most parts it has becomecubical or even more flattened. As a rule one finds that the great-est changes are most marked in the outermost divisions of theglands. In many the cells are largely shed, either in large massesor in small groups. The cast off cells show various stages of de-generation. The outlines become irregular. In some the proto-plasm becomes finely granular ; in others it is swollen, staininglightly. Here and there masses are quite changed into hyalinematerial. In several gland-spaces, leucocytes h

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