Drawings of the anatomy of the groin : with anatomical remarks / By W. Darrach.

  • Darrach, William, 1796-1865.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Drawings of the anatomy of the groin : with anatomical remarks / By W. Darrach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    ficialis) situated on the outer surface of the same tendon. A second sac is thus formed on the pro- truded bowel exterior to that made by the perito- neum. This outer sac is inaccurately said to be formed by the fascia superficialis. It consists of this, and the cellular sheath of the spermatic cord. The term fascia has thus, for surgical purposes, been applied to cellular tissue, com- pacted and thickened by disease and mechanical pressure. Fascia propria.—In a like sense is used the phrase fascia propria. The tumour of crural hernia is also found to have, very generally, a sac outside that of the peritoneum. This is said to be made of the i(fascia propria, that is, of the condensed and protruded cellular tissue, situated on the outside of the peritoneum, between this and the fascia transversalis. Origin of the above phrases.—The term, as above employed, has no anatomical signification. Fascia superficialis and fascia propria are surgical phrases, given to internal and external abdominal portions of the extensive cellular system, in order to facilitate a description of hernial sacs, into