- Vesicouterine excavation
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Latin = excavatio vesicouterina
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Caption = Sagittal section of the lower part of a female trunk, right segment. (Excavatio vesicouterina labeled at bottom right.)
Caption2 = The epiploic foramen, greater sac or general cavity (red) and lesser sac, or omental bursa (blue). Uterovesical excavation labeled at bottom left, third from the bottom.
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The Vesicouterine pouch (or Glassy Pouch) The peritoneum over the rectum and the bladder is continued over the intestinal surface and fundus of theuterus on to its vesical surface, which it covers as far as the junction of the body andcervix uteri , and then to the bladder, forming here a second, but shallower, pouch, the vesicouterine excavation (or uterovesical pouch).The vesicouterine excavation is close to the anterior
fornix of the vagina .
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Rectouterine pouch External links
* - "The Female Pelvis: Distribution of the Peritoneum in the Female Pelvis"
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