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Rectouterine folds

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Rectouterine folds
Latin plica rectouterina
Gray's subject #269 1260
Dorlands/Elsevier p_24/12649217

These folds of the rectouterine excavation are named the sacrogenital or rectouterine folds.

They contain a considerable amount of fibrous tissue and non-striped muscular fibers which are attached to the front of the sacrum and constitute the uterosacral ligaments.

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