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Tissue Structure and Function

Published in Joseph W. Freeman, Debabrata Banerjee, Building Tissues, 2018

There are four elastic ligaments: ligamentum flavum, broad ligament of the uterus, vocal chords, and suspensory ligaments in the lens. Ligamentum flavum is made from yellow elastic fibers. It runs through the entire spinal column, protects the spinal cord from the spinal column, and is a soft elastic curtain that gives all the movements of the spinal column. The broad ligament of the uterus holds the uterus in place. It has to stretch when the uterus expands. Vocal chords come in two sets: vocal ligaments and vocal muscles. Suspensory ligaments in the lens stretch when the eye muscles want to change the diameter of the lens.

A 3D finite element model of uterus support to evaluate mechanisms underlying uterine prolapse formation

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Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2022

Jialan Chen, Junfeng Zhang, Cuige Yu

In this manuscript, the 3D modelling of retroverted uterus and its surrounding ligaments was carried out by the software of SolidWorks (Figure 1). The uterine corpus (including cavity) was established based on MRI images of a female pelvic cavity without UP, and the simplified models of ligaments were obtained with reference to the MRI images and anatomical structures (Chen et al. 2013; Jiang 2017; Xie et al. 2018). The length of uterus from cervix to fundus is 87 mm with the cervix width being of 53 mm, and the width of isthmus is 26.5 mm. The broad ligament (BL) is located on both sides of the uterine corpus, broad fan-shaped, the upper starts from the fallopian tube and the lower ends in the cervical isthmus with the thickness of 1 mm.