"Foetal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... also happens, that at these very situations the visceral pressure is greatest whilst the body stands erect. These localities are, A, the umbilicus, a point characterized as having given passage (in the foetal state) to the umbilical vessels; D, the place where the spermatic vessels and duct pass from the abdomen to the testicle; and immediately beneath this, the crural arch, which gives exit to the crural vessels. Herniae may happen ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise |
