| Vesicouterine excavation | | | | Sagittal section of the lower part of a female trunk, right segment. (Excavatio vesicouterina labeled at bottom right.) | | | | 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. | | Latin | excavatio vesicouterina | | Gray's | subject #246 1152 | | Dorlands/Elsevier | e_18/12347092 | The peritoneum over the rectum and the bladder is continued over the intestinal surface and fundus of the uterus on to its vesical surface, which it covers as far as the junction of the body and cervix uteri, and then to the bladder, forming here a second, but shallower, pouch, the vesicouterine excavation (or uterovesical pouch). Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...
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The vesicouterine excavation is close to the anterior fornix of the vagina.
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See also The rectouterine pouch (or rectouterine excavation, or rectovaginal) is the extension of the peritoneal cavity between the rectum and back wall of the uterus in the female human body. ...
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