Identifier: textbt00hirs (find matches)
Title: A textbook of obstetrics
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Hirst, Barton Cooke, 1861-1935
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia : Saunders
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Anomalies of the Placenta: I, Placenta with irregular lobes (Auvard); 2, placenta intwo unequal lobes (Auvard); J, irregular placenta (Auvard); 4, small accessory placenta(Ribemont-Lepage); 5, placenta succenturiata (Ribemont-Lepage); 6. placenta, oval (Auvard); 7. placenta with velamentous attachLepage) ; 8, placenta with two equal lobes (Ribemont Lepage). attachment of cord (Ribemont- THE PLACENTA. 12 1 normal in this disease and the placenta may continue to performits physiological functions. Degeneration of the Placental Villi.—The morbid processes thatresult in such grave alteration in the structure of the placental villias to abrogate their physiological activity are, hypertrophy, fibrousand fatty, caseous (phthisical placenta), calcareous, and myxoma-tous degenerations. Placental hemorrhages, placental syphilis,and solid tumors of the placenta have, as a result, the destructionof all or of a part of the placental villi as factors in the nutritionand aeration of the fetal bloo

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