A Manual of Physiology Physiology Elementary Physiology

Physiology of parturition

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...

A Manual of Physiology

A Manual of Physiology

This is a carefully-written text-book of Physiology, embodying the results of the latest research in a subject which has developed so rapidly within the last few years that it is becoming more and more difficult to compress the necessary matter into a volume of moderate size. The author has, however, well fulfilled the difficult task he has undertaken, and succeeded in placing before his reader...

Manual of Human Physiology

Physiology of parturition

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...