Uterus
in comparative anatomy, a dilation in the walls of the oviduct for balance on Dec. 1, 1918, of $1,505,512. the preservation or development of the The assessed valuation in 1919 was about $675,000,000. The bonded debt of the State amounts to about $3,500,000.
Charities and Corrections. - The institutions under State control include a prison in Salt Lake City, Industrial School at Ogden, School for Deaf and Blind at Ogden, and the Mental Hospital at Provo.
State Government. The governor is elected for a term of four years. Legislative sessions are held biennially and are limited in length to 60 days each.
The Legislature has 18 members in the Senate, and 46 in the House. There are two Representatives in Congress.
History. The region embracing Utah was acquired from Mexico in 1848, and the Territory was organized in 1850, comprising Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nevada. The Mormons led by Brigham Young settled in Salt Lake City valley in 1847, and rapidly occupied the fertile valleys of the Territory, few Gentiles settling there till the extension of railroads made it more easily accessible.
At a later period the Gentile population rapidly increased, and vigorously opposed the supremacy of the Mormons, who controlled all government positions.
A bill passed by Congress in 1882 disfranchised all polygamists and annulled the act of the Territorial Legislature extending the franchise to women. In 1887 a bill was passed, which confiscated the property of the Mormon Church and the perpetual Emigration Fund, with the exception of the church buildings and parsonages, and devoted it to the support of public schools in the Territory. The Mormons renounced polygamy in 1890. ova. In birds, although the ova are developed externally, the term uterus is often applied to that cavity where the eggs receive the shell. In most of the viviparous fishes, and in the viviparous lacertilia and ophidia the ova develop within the uterine cavity without any assistance or nourishment from the mother. In the Prototheria (=Ornithodelphia Monotremata) the oviducts according to some authorities, have no distinct uterine or Fallopian portion, but open directly into a cloacal chamber.
Gegenbaur, however, calls the lower end of each oviduct a uterus. In the Metatheria (Didelphia Marsupialia) each of the oviducts is differentiated into uterine and Fallopian tracts, opening into a long and distinct distinct vagina. vag In the = .
Eutheria (=Monodelphia, including all other mammals) the uterus is variously modified. In the Primates it is normally single, though instances of a double uterus occasionally occur; it is twohorned in the Ruminantia, Pachydermata, Equidæ, and Cetacea, and is said to be divided when it has only a very short body, which speedily divides externally and internally, and is continuous with the oviducts (as in most of the Carnivora and Edentata, and some of the Rodentia); it is actually double in some of the Edentata and in most of the Rodentia, including the mouse and the hare, each oviduct passing into an intestiniform uterus, which has two completely distinct openings lying near to each other within the vagina.
In human anatomy, a hollow, muscular organ, with very thick walls, situated in the pelvic cavity, between the rectum and UTICA the bladder. The virgin uterus is about three inches long, two broad, and one inch thick at its upper extremity. The middle part is called the body, the upper the fundus, and the lower, opening into the vagina, the neck . Its chief function is to receive the ovum from the Fallopian tubes, and to retain and support it during the development of the fœtus, which it expels by muscular contraction the uterus becomes greatly enlarged and undergoes important structural changes; the uterus is liable to many affections and diseases, as tumors, ulceration, catarrh, tenesmus, hemorrhage, etc.