"Between the cervix [here meaning the uterine neck] and inner receptacle is a certain substance of pelicular flesh which is quite sensitive, perforated in the middle, capable of dilation and constriction, called the mouth of the uterus and having the form of...
a newborn kitten"*
*Jacopo Berengario, A Short Introduction to Anatomy (Isagogue Breves), trans. L. R. Lind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959), 78.
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