An Abstract of lectures on hernia

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L. Anton Smith, 1902 - 29 pages
 

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Page 15 - The connective tissue which closes the umbilical opening is much thinner than the surrounding parts, and the peritoneum is very much more closely adherent than at any other portion of the linea alba. The umbilical opening through the tendon is not larger than a quill an;1, is formed like the apertures we have already considered for the escape of the vessels.

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