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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2016 Jan 14;21(2):106–112. doi: 10.1016/j.siny.2015.12.009

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The three-zone theory of the cervical collagen network: inner and outer zones contain mostly collagen fibers that are oriented parallel to the endocervical canal, and a middle zone contains collagen fibers that are circumferentially oriented around the endocervical canal.