pelvic floor
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[edit]pelvic floor (plural pelvic floors)
- (anatomy) A muscular partition, formed by the muscle fibers of the levator ani, the coccygeus, and associated connective tissue, which spans the area underneath the pelvis.
- Synonym: pelvic diaphragm
- 1994, T. Sayer, T. Smith, 2.9 Pelvic Floor Biopsy, Bernhard Schüssler, Jo Laycock, Peggy A. Norton, Stuart L. Stanton (editors), Pelvic Floor Re-Education, Springer, page 99,
- Single-fibre electromyography (SFEMG) and pudendal nerve terminal motor latency (PNTML) recordings were done in control women and women with genitourinary prolapse or stress incontinence who also had a pelvic floor muscle biopsy.
- 2008, Hans Peter Dietz, Lennox P.J. Hoyte, Anneke B. Steensma, Atlas of Pelvic Floor Ultrasound, Springer, page v:
- Pelvic floor ultrasound is often described as a niche investigation within obstetrics and gynecology and even within gynecological ultrasound.
- 2010, Giulio Aniello Santoro, Andrzej Paweł Wieczorek, S. Abbas Shobeiri, Aleksandra Stankiewicz, “6: Endovaginal Ultrasonography”, in Giulio Santoro, Andrzej P. Wieczorek, Clive I. Bartram, editors, Pelvic Floor Disorders, Springer, page 61:
- High-resolution three-dimensional endovaginal ultrasonography (EVUS) provides a detailed evaluation of the pelvic floor muscles and the levator ani complex, the lower urinary tract, and the anorectal region in planes that cannot be determined by conventional two-dimensional EVUS.
Translations
[edit]muscular partition
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Further reading
[edit]- Pelvic floor dysfunction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vaginal support structures on Wikipedia.Wikipedia