Flashcard: angles of anteversion and anteflexion

In most women the uterus is anteverted and anteflexed

Anteverted: long axis of the uterus is bent forward on the long axis of the vagina.
Anteflexed: long axis of the body of the uterus is bent foreword at the level of the internal os
with the long axis of the cervix.
Source of image: Standring S (2008) Grays Anatomy, the anatomical basis of clinical practice.
40th ed. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier. p1285