SOME BASIC FEMALE PELVIC ANATOMY

A WARNING TO BACK STREET ABORTIONISTS

• IN SLIDES 2 AND 3 IT CAN BE SEEN THAT THE UTERUS IS ANTEFLEXED AND ANTEVERTD

• THAT IS IT IS AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE VAGINA • THE UTERUS IS NOT A CONTINUOUS STRIGHT

TUBE CONNECTING THE VAGINA AS IS APPARENT FROM THAT SHOWN IN SLIDES 5,6, 7

• IF YOU INADVERTENTLY BLINDLY PASS A PROBE OR HANGER UP THROUGH THE VAGINA NOT KNOWING THIS ANATOMY.. YOU WILL GO INTO THE RECTUM……..AND CAUSE SERIOUS INFECTION AND PROBABLY DEATH

• NOTE THE POSSIBLE UNUSUAL ARRANGEMENTS OF THE UTERUS RELATIVE TO THE VAGINA

• IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THESE POSSIBILITIES YOU CAN CAUSE A LOT OF DAMAGE

Uterus: Variations in Position

Uterus: Variations in Position

Uterus: Variations in Position

• THE NEXT SLIDES SHOW THE BLOOD VESSELS AROUND THE VAGINA AND UTERUS

• YOU CERTAINLY DON’T WANT TO GET A PROBE OR HANGER INTO ANY OF THESE

• THESE VESSELS TEND TO COIL AND ENLARGE IN PREGNANCY

• NEXT THREE SLIDES SHOW THE NORMAL Structures of the female reproductive system

• AGAIN NOTE THAT THE UTERUS IS TURNED FORWARD RELATIVE TO THE POSITION OF THE VAGINA

• AGAIN NOTE THAT THE UTERUS LIES IN FRONT OF THE RECTUM BEHIND THE SPACE CALLED THE POUCH OF DOUGLAS

• SO WHEN YA THINK YA SCRAPING FOETAL MATERIAL IT MIGHT BE FAECAL MATERIAL

Side View

Urinary bladder

Cervix

Fallopian tube

Ovary

Uterus

Vagina

Urethra